Election day

We had a late night on Election Eve, and so I didn't get to get up early to do some campaign volunteering before work. At lunch I did leave for an hour plus to work with some other Hillary Clinton campaign volunteers for a "Hollar and Honk" event. Most of these were at big intersections in the suburbs, but this was a lunchtime event - which should have been aimed at pedestrians. Here I met a big group of young people who were volunteers from New York City and New Jersey. Unlike the Chicago Obama volunteer who was doing it the first time, these New York area volunteers - many of them - had already volunteered at least half a dozen other places, some times almost once a week, at differently monthly locations. These volunteers complained about voter intimidation by the Obama campaign, even in West Virginia (where Clinton nevertheless won big, by 42 percentiages points). Intimidation included calling voters and telling them the race was over and that they should vote for Obama (or just medical issues, in general)? From my 75 minutes of volunteering at one of the Louisville Obama office, I knew that the script - which I really didn't use - reminded voters that Obama was close to clinching the nomination, as well as made general electability arguments. It's possible that some of this could be construed along the lines of what the Clinton volunteers said. On the drive back to my office - where we had received a stern anti-electioneering on the job e-mail - I saw two Obama volunteers doing a similar service a block from my office (not from my office, though many of my professional/Presbyterian colleagues are probably pro-Obama) at 2nd and Main, near the entrance to the 2nd Street bridge. After work, Stephanie went to Beargrass Christian Church - both to vote (sign pictured) - where she was disappointed there was no line - even with only 15 minutes to go before the upsurdly early poll closing time of 6 p.m. - then for our weekly Weight Watchers meeting, which was just feet away. Getting home, I walked the dog on a different block, past neighbors with opposing signs (pictured). There have also been plenty of signs for the two leading Democratic U.S. Senate candidates - including the one Stephanie met the previous night; and in our neighborhood for the former Republican Congresswoman seeking the Republican nomination to run against first-term Democratic incumbent John Yarmuth. We were exhausted from the previous night, and so we stayed home to watch as Hillary Clinton gave a (KY) victory speech, with Bill and Chelsea (who we still haven't seen), at the Marriott, just between where I stood with Clinton supporters at lunchtime and where I saw the Obama supporters. I missed watching on TV Obama's speech from Des Moines, which was supposed to be good. No end in sight to this yet, even with now "Robert Kennedy assassination-gate," on Clinton's end, and "Holocaust-sending-Jewish people-to-the-Promised-Land-gate," on McCain's end, both of which may be overblown.