Election night special
I was awake at six this morning and at my polling place by just after seven. I'd been anticipating long lines, but things were only starting to get busy at that hour, and I was in and out in about ten minutes. (But apparently, something like 43% of eligible voters in New London had voted by 1:00, and various coworkers mentioned high turnouts at their own polling places in adjacent towns.) It was fun watching people walk past the reference desk wearing "I Voted" stickers this morning; I had a hard time concentrating on much of anything, but, fortunately, I spent a big chunk of my workday away from my desk and doing other things besides obsessively tracking election news. I just got home, and am planning to spend the evening making dinner and then alternately watching the returns and following the election thread at Making Light.
By the way, I think the #votereport project at Twitter is a fantastic idea, especially the map of people's reports. Way to visualize the data, even if it did crash for part of the day as a gazillion people checked out what was going on at their polling places. And it was fun to add my own data point to the mass, even though my own voting experience was so smooth and uneventful as to be anticlimactic.
Now to fortify myself for the evening. Catch you all tomorrow, or maybe late tonight, depending on how the returns go.
And finally, if any of you are in need of a rest from tonight's coverage, have some breaking news from Monty Python: the Silly Party has taken Luton!
At the end: “Mary Whitehouse has just taken Umbrage.” Ha!