I guess people are just fed up with Bush and the republicans and we are going to have record turnout all around...
And I'm sorry but I have to do it... Sunflower dodge in OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOlathe! hahahaha sorry :-) J.J. On 2/6/08, Shawna Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My husband and I got to our caucus location at 6 pm (line forms 6 pm, > registration begins 6:30, caucus starts at 7 ... so they thought). > > It was held in a small church in downtown Olathe. When we pulled up there > was a line but not much of one (we thought). > > As we stood there the line started stretching down the sidewalk about 4 > blocks long ... we found out later we were at the BACK entrance ... the > front entrance had a line 6 or 7 blocks long. > > They had tables set up to process those already registered and one set up to > register new voters and those switching parties, like my husband (he's an > independent). > > The registered tables were empty. The new voter/switching parties table was > mobbed. > > About 7 pm, the organizers came over the PA saying they usually have about > 80 people show up to caucus, they had PLANNED this year to have about 600 > show, the total number that actually CAME was around 2000. Obviously, the > tiny church we were in couldn't hold everyone and the police made them move > the caucus. > > The only place to move everyone was to an open-air square adjacent to the > nearby county courthouse. > > So all 2000 of us booked it out to the square and stood in the rain, > freezing rain, sleet, snow. > > It took about 2 hours to process all the new registrations -- and everyone > previously registered had to stand outside and wait until ALL the > participants were registered before they could begin counting. > > They organized us into lines stretching down the middle of the square. > Hillary's line was single file and was about a third of the square long. > Obama's line was rows of five that stretched from one end of the square to > the other, across the street, up the courthouse steps, and even into the > courthouse itself. > > The amazing thing was, despite standing there wet, freezing, and miserable > -- NO ONE LEFT! There was lots of complaining and bitching, but everyone > stuck it out, including groups of what looked like high school/college age > students who were having the time of their lives, yelling and screaming for > Obama like they were at a rock concert. > > It was definitely chaos on a massive scale. At the end I think I heard the > count was 3 to 1 Obama. Apparently, this scenario was pretty standard all > across the Kansas side of the city. > > Oh, and my husband and I were on the news, which was pretty neat. They had > all kinds of news crews filming the craziness ... we turned on the news when > we got home (finally!) and there we were, holding up our hands to be > counted. > > All in all, another experience I won't ever forget. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:15 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Super Tuesday MADNESS! > > HOLY CRAP! > > I just got back from my primary caucus site and I've never seen more > people, even for voting for president! Traffic was backed up for > miles, the site was total madhouse - near anarchy - and I'm guessing > that for every primary vote there were 5 that would've been had it > been easier. They ran out of ballots and were using the back of high > school bathroom passes with your vote tossed into a manila envelope. > Audit that. > > Wow, just wow. Absolute craziness. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:253465 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
