Took me all of like seven (7) minutes from the time I parked the car to the time I was driving away. This is roughly one-fifth the time it took at the same polling place off of Providence Road in 2004.
This indicates one of two things. One, the early voting numbers are not additive to Election Day turnout, meaning the massive turnout projections are too high. Or, that no one is turning out to vote in heavily GOP precincts in the county. Given the wishy-washy, front-running nature of local Republicans, this would not surprise me. But arguing against that is their professed interest — as demonstrated by the spring primary results — in turning out to vote for Pat McCrory.
So I have to conclude, that on balance the available evidence suggests much closer to normal turnout, ie, no massive Obama surge. Let’s see if that is true. If it is….very damn funny.
Update: Ha! I swear before I clicked on Drudge I knew the 5pm hour would bring the first leaks of exit poll data. The nets have to start getting their storylines together for the 6pm hour — even if they do not call anything yet — and there is always one or two back channels that leak what is supposed to be closely held info.
