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Lines in Tulsa [1]

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Date: 2024-11-05  

I mailed my ballot in two weeks ago to avoid having to stand in line, not that lines are generally very long at my hard-right suburb here in Tulsa. This morning, I went out for groceries, which takes me by my polling place (a fungelical church I would otherwise never enter). At about 11AM, there must have been between two and three hundred people in line outside the building, and the parking lot had over-flowed into the adjacent streets. In the three elections I’ve voted in this precinct, I’ve never once seen the lines outside the building.

Ordinarily my subdivision—to say nothing of the adjacent city streets—would be jammed with Trump signs. There are signs for the hard right candidate for the legislature, but otherwise none to be seen. Certainly, none for Trump, at least on my short route to the grocery store and back.

I’m certain Trump will carry Oklahoma—and my precinct—by double digits, but possibly not by 20+ points like the last two times. Still, the long lines indicate enthusiasm to vote, even when the outcome is almost certainly pre-determined in a place like Oklahoma.

I just thought this anecdote might be of interest, recalling that the plural of anecdote is not data.

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