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Election day, early edition open thread

in the course of those of you who are voting today, allocation your experience. call 1-866-our-vote and report if you have problems casting your ballot. you can record incidents at the voter terminating wiki.

* How were the lines? * What’s the weather like? It is rainy here, so I’m concerned turnout will be lower, though 66% of NC citizens have early voted. * What was your wait time? * What is the GOTV like in your area (we had Obama canvassers visit our home on Sunday)

If you have photos, feel free to post in the comments. Daimeon just sent in this one from his polling precinct in Virginia - 6AM, the line is out the door:

Oc vote

Early voting stats for NC:

42% - or about 2.6 million registered voters cast their votes early

By Party 51.5% - Are registered Democrats 30% - Are registered Republicans 18.4% - Are unaffiliated

By Age 8.6% - Early voters who are 18-24 20.5% - Early voters who are 45-54 8.9% - Early voters who are 75 or older

By County 46% - Approximate number of Wake voters who turned out early. More than half the voters in Durham and Orange counties cast ballots.

Polls are open today from 6:30 a.m to 7:30 p.m. Voters who are in line at 7:30 p.m. must be allowed to cast a ballot.

More below the fold. TV in NC polluted by Republican slime ads last night:

A group called National Republican Trust had a heinous Jeremiah Wright commercial running all night here - it paid a boatload of bucks for an ad buy in NC. It was almost on a continuous loop all night during the SNL show that we were watching. There were nasty anti-Obama advertisements every commercial break, almost all of them by 527s, I don’t recall seeing McCain campaign-sponsored ads.

Of course this was going to happen. McCain himself said he wouldn’t “go there” with Wright, but that doesn’t mean these 527s can’t - and quite frankly, I don’t think this tired old saw is going to work at this point.

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