The race is run
November 4th, 2008 at 1:47 am by Suzanne Geha under News
It’s after midnight. The race is run and the judging begins. How will you vote when you go to the polls? That’s what all the candidates, each political party, the pundits and the pollsters have been trying to speculate, calculate, and guesstimate for months now.
You hold the secret. Some of you have revealed your hand… others have played it close to the vest. All the experts think they know what you’re thinking. Maybe they do. Maybe they don’t.
That’s the mystique of elections. Politicos can question and survey, campaign and advertise, cajole, appease, convince and persuade. But only you really know what works and what doesn’t; what sticks and what falls flat; what’s real and what rings hollow.
At WOODTV-8, we will watch all day as you flock to the precincts, flash your id, and follow your conscience when you sequester yourselves in the sanctity of that voting booth and cast your ballots. It’s the single most important act an American can do. It is what makes us Americans, and everytime we exercise our constitutional right, we hold democracy to its highest standard.
By the next midnight, we could very well know who will be our new commander-in-chief. Some of you will be elated. Others will be dejected. It is the price we pay to have a say. Elections are a gamble. Where there is victory there is defeat…where there are winners there are losers. But it is never just the candidates who win or lose. All the rest of us who dare to care have something on the line. We all have a stake in Decision 2008. We ran the race too.
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It was encouraging to see so many people waiting to vote at 7 AM, including people I’ve never seen at the poles before. However, the organization at Grand Rapids’ precincts is hopelessly inefficient and outdated. Some serious revamping would enable people to vote more quickly. The city and county clerks should get together and figure out an efficient system.
I went at about 8 and did not have to wait
I went around 3 in the afternoon no lines plenty of room. I saw a few younger workers this year.
sad day for usa it will take 20 plus yaers to fix what obama xnd the den. wiull do here and abrad I have put my flag away