In case I’m not back by 2nd post time
Sarah Palin has company:
Democrats need to keep putting points on the board all the way to the close of polls on Election Day. Really. Wherever you are. I’m back from a pre-dawn lit drop at 90 doors. Made it back after lit-dropping and reporting on voter traffic at multiple precincts to add this.
Voter traffic in my town this morning is slow after record-breaking early voting in North Carolina, I won’t lie. For voters of every stripe. Don’t misread that.
But early voting was so intense here in 2008 that by Election Day there was virtually no one left to vote at my precinct who intended to. Between 3 p.m. and polls closing at 7:30 p.m., six voters showed up. It was like walking into an episode of The Twilight Zone. A news helicopter came and hovered over US 25 with a camera aimed out the door at our polling place, looking for voters in line. But it was just me and tumbleweeds outside in the street. In the end, Barack Obama won North Carolina by 14,000 votes, 3,000 less than the margin delivered out of our county. That was close. Not Florida 2000 close. Not Roy Cooper 2016 close. But too close.
We can do more. We will do more in 2024.