Get to the polls if you live in VA and haven't voted. There was not

a line. I heard only 5% of us were estimated to vote. My polling place is using Sequoia -- the one that is giving Lou Dobbs a fit.

(Alexandria) was really light.

I don't think people even knew there was a primary.

Seriously. I almost forgot.

I heard that was a plan for at least some of them.

since we don't register by party. They ask you which ballot you want.

In my little precinct, I was 118 in the Democratic lineup at 1 pm, and the guy told me the Republicans were at 88, as I recall.

Yeah, you can crossover any way you want here. But, I have no way of knowing how anyone voted.

I ain't Diebold, ya know.

In my precinct, we had two primaries, but they both were Democratic primaries -- the statewide Democratic primary for the Senate nomination (Webb v. Miller) and the local Democratic primary for candidate to run against Tom Davis for the House (Longmayer v. Hurst). As a result, there was no need to ask for a particular ballot...you showed up and both races were on the ballot. Presumably there was no need to identify oneself in those areas (most of the state) where the only race on the ballot was the Democratic primary.

If you were in an area where the repub primary to pick a challenger to Moran was in play, it sounds like you had to ask to vote in either the Democratic Senate primary or the repub House primary. But that would be the rare exception.

Nonetheless, I wonder how many repubs bothered to turn out where there was no repub primary. I'd be surprised if it was enough to impact the outcome of the Senate primary.

I just figured people needed to be able to say "Republican" out loud here in The People's Republic Of Alexandria (we're SO blue) without getting spat upon.

I wonder, now that you mention it, how many did, and why?

Think Jimmy Webb has them scared? That's my first guess.

can and phone banking.

... the pubbies want to run against Miller, so they were tellin' their people to go and vote in the dem primary for Miller.

With links to http://thegreenpapers.com.

And Dobbs only cares about Sequoia because of the Chavez connection, he wouldn't give a rats ass but for that

they DON'T want to vote. I had so many people tell me this lately that I don't argue anymore. Even some of my like-minded political friends have HAD IT!

I've said it a hundred times... we can't just keep sitting here blogging.... we MUST get motivated and form some sort of ACTIVE OFFENSIVE coalition! People are just fed up with EVERYTHING and TIRED of waiting for SOMETHING to happen!!

7 AM this morning when the polls had been open an hour, I was the 8th person to vote at my polling place. DH was #9.