Poll A Tuesday in August?

Fat lot of good it did.

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Poll Don't Vote Uffda Graycloud for President; there are bigger asses running.

This is the big one here. Minnesota will have (another!) automatic recount due to a close (within 0.5%) vote. Mark Dayton (DFL) appears to have narrowly won as our next Governor. The recount will not even start until all the counties have certified their results so it will be a couple weeks. Then the (re)counting... Gov. Pawlenty has said he' ( Read more... )

Very locally, my ward had one person listed on the ballot for city council. There was another candidate, running as a write-in.The result was 514 to 484. I suspect had the write-in been on the ballot outright, the result would have gone the other way. Fortunately, while I think the write-in would have been the better choice, the winner isn't a ( Read more... )

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I got up an hour early to get to the polls nice and early. I got there a bit after I'd planned, about 10 minutes early. The hallway at the Knights of Columbus hall was already fairly crowded, but there was just enough room for a few more folks to wait inside. More were soon waiting in the entryway, and it wasn't much longer that the line ran ( Read more... )

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