Observations from the booth...

I stood in line for a good hour waiting to vote this morning (went at 10am to try to avoid the before-work and at-lunch rushes, didn't seem to do much good).

Heard the poll workers panicking about possibly running out of ballots (oh boy, just what we need - that kind of controversy)...they said the fewest number of people in line was 8 when they opened the doors at 6am. There were a good 100 people in line the whole time we were there and it was getting worse as we were getting ready to vote. Luckily, the church where the polls were located had enough room for the line to be completely in-doors.

The church had laid out several pamphlets about their church (seemed in bad taste to me). I really was shocked how they had a stack of anti-abortion and anti-stem cell research pamphlets on the table right before you entered the voting area. Seems like a possible attempt to influence the voters to me.

I did hear from CNN that some states are expecting over 80% voter turn-out. Wow!