Went to Village Hall here in Chicago’s suburbia to vote early, my first time ever early voting. Couldn’t park. The very large number of spaces were all taken. Will try again Wednesday about 10:00AM as I have the day off.
I may have to stand in the long lines on Election Day. It would be a joke if everyone stands in long lines to vote early and by election day virtually everyone has voted.
Hell has frozen over!
The Chicago Tribune (a Republican stalwart since forever) has endorsed Barack Obama over Mitt Romney! They even endorse my (D) state senator and (D) state rep. The full page endorsement boils down to they have no confidence that Mitt Romney will reduce the deficit.
Made it today. At least I could park. 40 minutes from the time I got in line. I would take this as a good sign except for the guy shouting, “Go Romney!” as he left. More and more Romney/Ryan and Joe Walsh signs up. PAC ads slamming Tammy Duckworth for a missing $4,000,000 from the Illinois Department of Veterans affairs. More PAC ads calling her “Blagojevich appointee, Tammy Duckworth” and tieing her to “corrupt Governor Rod Blagojevich”. It reminds me of Alexi Giannoulius losing because of all the ads calling him a “banker with ties to organized crime”, while the only ties there were was his public bank making perfectly proper loans to reputed organized crime figures which the bank could have been sued for not making.