At Last

I predict: Clinton 55, Obama 45.

You know what standing outside a polling place all day long is? It's a bunch of old men bullshitting, that's what it is. For thirteen fucking hours.

Turnout in my division was 242, good but not amazing.

This is where I stood all day. Note the name of the business where the polling place was located:

Beauty salon, Ward 1, Division 13.

Now I have to go back to get the results. Motherfuck.

Update: Obama 132, Clinton 95. The downticket race involving John Dougherty produced votes for Hillary, since Johnny Doc's natural constituency is the white ethnic Philadelphia machine cogs who also go for Clinton. Doc 93, Farnese 71, Dicker 31. I didn't encounter a white Obama supporter all day. Doc owes Anne a boatload of flowers, and support the next time she runs against Babette. Poor Larry, fucked by Fumo, then fucked by the machine. [LOL: Farnese wins.]

Results for the state at the moment: Clinton 54%, Obama 46%, with 61% reporting.

Update 2: What was funny was that for some reason, several different news photographers came to Flavor In Ya Hair during the course of the day: NYTimes, AP, WSJ, and a couple of others. I don't see any pics they took online yet, but I'll keep looking.

Update 3: Every time I have volunteered to do anything political, it has involved some productive work and a large measure of wasting my time on things campaign staffers think are important. Obama wasted my time less than others, but clearly - standing outside a hair salon all day on the off chance something untoward might happen is not the highest and best use of 13 hours. And in any case, there is a very uncertain correlation between effort expended by volunteers and electoral outcomes.  In other news, losing is no fun. Winning feels better, although either way it's not clear you had much to do with it.

Update 4: Oh, I guess I should mention. In Ward 1, Division 13, the Republican Presidential primary was no contest:

• John McCain          4
• Ron Paul                  1
• Mike Huckabee     0

Update and now to bed: With 82% of the precincts reporting, it's Clinton 55%, Obama 45%. On to wherever the fuck we go next!

Comments

[Mercedes]

The people I work with in New Jersey think it's insane that my polling spot is a hair salon... not with quite as catchy a name, though.

[Tiny Tyrant]

"guess i'm gonna say 'Craig Mack' with perfect timin"

[Betty Cracker]

Happy Groundhog Day. Hey, maybe standing outside a hair salon was not a good use of your time. But from the sidelines here in FL, I thank you for your effort. Obama is going to win this thing in the end, and you will have helped make it happen.