Philly.com: Philly Turnout Is Big Real Big

[Cush]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/politics/Philly_turnout_Its_big_Real_big.html

The turnout stunned election officials in many areas.

“This is big. Real big,” said election judge Lowell Webb.

Webb said he had worked 35 years as an election official and had never seen a turnout of this magnitude.

The turnout in part was spurred by voter registration drives at the two universities. The precinct registration was more than double 2004 – when Bush received 24 percent of the vote at that polling station.

Precincts across the city told much the same story.

About three miles to the north in a middle-class, high-rise apartment at the northwestern edge of Philadelphia’s border with Bala Cynwyd, 140 people had voted before 11 am. In 2004, only 217 voters cast ballots – 79 percent of them Democratic. Election Judge Michaela Hinton-Graham said voters were waiting for her at 6 a.m., an hour before polls opened.

[EconomicLiberal]

1. Let's hope so!

[stray cat]

2. Philly is the key to a Obama victory in PA - good to see