lol....I thought you were gonna show us something pretty that you needed our opinions on!!

I was in line to vote at 6:20 this morning. the line was already REALLY long!! I didn't get out of there until 8:20. But it's done. EVERYONE needs to vote! If you do not vote, you do not have the right to complain about anything that happens in this country for the next 4 years. So protect your right to complain....VOTE!!

I was expecting the same thing.

Voted - in my precinct almost everyone votes by mail so no line to speak of when I went to vote this am.

Don't forget to pick up your free coffee at Starbuck's and ice cream at Ben and Jerry's when you're done. (There's a few other freebies but those are the ones I remember.)

LOL....how tko are we that none of us expected you to mean VOTE!!! i snuck out of work today around 10:30 and there were no lines where i am. i don't know if that's a good sign or not.

I voted and took my 19 yr old DS to vote for the first time! No lines at all.

Took my 5 & 8 y.o. with us at 7:15am before school -- easy in and out, short line, but moved through quickly. The boys were most excited that we stopped at the bakery for a muffin afterwards and still made it to school on time. It has been a great experience to have family discussions about the election process, culminating in going with us to the polls this morning.

My new state (Tennessee) has early voting, so I voted a week or so ago . . . I think I heard that in some places, 40% of the registered voters voted early. Sure was convenient! We went past our polling place around 8 and there were lots of cars but when he went at 10 he walked right in.

I agree!! Everyone vote!

Arlene

Homeschooling mom...took my 13 yr. old DD with me to the school where we vote. We were in and out in 30 minutes. Newly TKO and I too thought we were going to be asked to vote on a kitchen item!

Since so many here are feeling that bluekitobsessed has let them down, well, what if we take a vote on whether or not to vote. ;-)

(Pundit-in-chief here predicting that the aye's will have it).

Yah, I voted early this morning, too. Not as early as I wanted to but still I was in and out of there in short order, too.
At my polling place, the lines to vote weren't long but the lines at Starbucks for free coffee?!!!!! Now *those* were a monster. I'm not a coffee drinker but when we did go to the Starbucks my DH didn't stick around for *that*.

How disloyal is that?

It was soooooooo inspiring to see lots people at my polling place....I'm usually one of 50 the whole day! And hey, I didn't know about the free coffee!

My husband and I voted at lunch and there were no lines. In and out in 5 minutes. Disappointed in the turnout in our area, as Pa is one of the states that really counts!

took my 6 yo dd and 3 yo ds... 6 year old has been very interested in this race and was thrilled to watch me vote. I let her put the ballot into the cool machine. this was after school (and after taking them for their flu vaccine - got the mist - no shots, no tears ... AWESOME), in and out, but I live in a small town.

I live in northern Virginia. I just got back from voting...dragged my 3 kids out into the drizzle, loaded them in the car (w/ books and lollipops in case the line was long), and went to our polling place. Plenty of parking spots were empty, and no one was in line ahead of us in the M-Z line (3 people in the A-L line). In and out very quickly. I'm sure the after-work voting will pick up.

This morning around 8:30 I was at my daughter's school, another polling place, for a teacher conference. I expected the lines to be long there, since it was still relatively early. But it was virtually empty as well.

I know the early voting lines were long -- had friends who waited over 2 hours last week -- and I'm interested to see what the turnout numbers are in our area.

I live in Dallas and the line at 9:00 am was about 300 people long. I live near a heavily Hispanic, bedroom community area, and there were dozens of moms who clearly had just dropped their kids off at the school next door before coming over to vote. In 2006 there was maybe 1/3 of that, and in 2004 I got in and out without having to wait in line. Pretty amazing and inspiring.

A short line for me in NJ which was good since I had my 5 year old and 15 month old with me.

I heard about the free coffee but figured the line there would be crazy so we skipped it and got a DD coffee and donut (always a treat for the little ones).

I was happy to see how excited my DS was about the election. He got off the bus and asked me if I was voting for McCaine or Obama. I was impressed that he remembered the names but he was more excited to tell me the results of his school vote to name the class teddy bear. FYI -"Honey" beat "Cutie Pie" by a landslide! Pretty cool how they made voting meaningful at the kids level.

There's no Starbucks or B & J near me :( I waited for my 14 year old to get out of school b/c he was excited to "vote" himself. He's getting all worked up by politics this year!

In some places there are 6 and 8-hour lines!

No polling places where I live, only mail in. What a shame !!! I did vote though. Sent it through the trusty postal service.... hope it got there.

I am in a rural/suburban county just outside of Indianapolis and we have had a month of early voting available to us. The lines at the courthouse for early voting have been 30 min. to 2 hours long, depending upon when you went.

I waited to vote until election day and waited 45 minutes beginning at 11:30 a.m. By that time, more than 75% of the registered voters in my precinct had already voted, either by absentee (which includes early voters) or that day. Pretty awesome!

Whether you are happy about the outcome of the election or not, I think we all can agree that the excitement generated this election cycle has been good. And, as I told my 10 and 12 year old daughters yesterday, no matter who won the presidency, it was going to be a moment for history.

I'm not a coffee drinker but probably would have made the trip into town to a Starbucks had I known about the freebie! : )

Sandy