voted at Super Fundie church in Memphis, TN--a little blue here

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You sure wouldn't know it from the yard signs in the neighborhood, but it looked to me as if a few people in my fundie neighborhood were very purposefully wearing blue (like me!)



This church is so Superfundie (Independent Pres) that it broke away from Fundie (Second Pres) decades ago.

This says "Extending The Gospel of Grace to Memphis and Beyond."

Typical neighborhood voting pic, going out of the church gym. An elderly woman is being accompanied by her black attendant. This is right before the polling people came running out telling the elderly woman that she had left the card in the machine. Uh, hello poll workers?



The Republican workers were all wearing red, including a neighbor who informed me that they were taking the unconvicted people who were in jail to vote. I told her that was probably not illegal and she was angry.

The wait was over an hour because of all the ballot measures. If people actually read them it took them a long time. They looked okay to me so it was Obama, D against Lamar Alexander, a smattering of other races, and yesses galore.

There looked like there were actually three high tech looking Obama people there, with these true notebook computers that were connected to other places. They didn't have much to do, but we decided that two of these young blacks were probably going to be seeing more of each other.

I got caught up with some neighborhood gossip--shows how out of touch I am that I didn't know the scientist down the street smokes pot every night on his back porch, that our next door neighbor has Epstein Barr, and is going to get a chicken to go with the rooster (seriously!), etc. etc.

Supposedly there is extremely heavy black turnout in this very blue county. There is good Obama organization despite it not being a swing state.

That is my report from Memphis. I promised this report in response to a thread on early voting in Memphis.

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1. should be ILLEGal to have polling stations in churches nt

[Wetzelbill]

3. I voted at a church today too

[madeline_con]

5. Why? The schools are in use right now. n/t

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6. oh, it's not that bad

Nobody tried to convert me or anything. Some of the parishioners were trying to set up chairs around for people in the line. Anyway, we have about zillions of churches within walking distance of my house, and no libraries, public buildings, firehouses, etc.

This place is just a wall of churches of all stripes. It would be a shame to have to vote someplace far away.

I used to vote at the regular fundie Methodist church down the street, but they have too many kids' basketball teams to want to give up their gym for the day now. So Super Fundie Independent Pres it is!! I dare ANYONE to go to a wedding there without rolling their eyes. It is just an amazingly bad ceremony.

[Wetzelbill]

2. would you mind if I posted this link on my blog?

You can check it out first, it's my election blog for today.

http://www.myspace.com/billwetzel

http://blog.myspace.com/billwetzel

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4. that's fine n/t

[Wetzelbill]

10. cool thanks

[RollWithIt]

7. Need to start hanging out with scientist neighbor... write it down!

Maybe he's like Doc in back to the future!

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9. supposedly both husband and wife are way famous in certain circles

Naturally, it is one of the few D houses on the street. Funny, I had no idea about the pot smoking. I guess the neighborhood is a little more eclectic than it seems at first glance.

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8. I forgot to add this tidbit--

A Republican poll worker that looked exactly like Janet Reno!! Good grief, I was just a little intimidated about getting a pic of her. But you could not tell the difference, I promise.

Everyone in line agreed that she could have gotten a job on SNL. Then we started snickering about Tina Fey and Palin.

I'm going to be really interested to see if Obama could get maybe 30% of the vote in this lilly white mostly fundy precinct with the (illegal) rooster. If so, it may be a landslide.