Want to cast your vote early?  You can now do so in all but just a few states.  Green states on the map all allow early voting.  All it takes is a trip to your usual voting place.  

Although your vote will not be counted until November 4, you will have a much better chance of not facing long lines, or the possibility of having to stand outside in line if the weather is bad on Election Day.  

Early Voting Turning From A Trickle To A Torrent

Voters are flooding to the polls this year to vote early with Democratic turnout running 2 to 1 ahead of Republican voters who have already been to their polling place to cast their vote for--among others-- the next President of the United States.

Election officials are predicting that by November 4, 30% of all registered voters will have already been to the polls.  That is up from just 15% in 2000 and 20% in 2004.

With their band playing and the president of their university leading them, over 1000 students from Florida A & M arrived to vote recently.  Just a day or two later an en masse student body from Florida State arrived at the polls.

Obama has been actively campaigning to encourage people, especially young people, to vote early while McCain is relying on Election Day and absentee ballots.

Fun Facts About Previous Elections

*** When politics and baseball collide:
GOP strategist Craig Shirley emails First Read this thought: “If you
are looking to complete the circle between 1980 and 2008, consider
this: The last time the Phillies were in the World Series was … 1980,
when they beat the Royals in five. Reagan himself defied history
because the guideline for the 20th century was when an American League
team won the series, the GOP won the presidency, and when the National
League team won the Series, a Democrat won the White House.”

*** Fun fact of the day: The
end of Yale's reign, courtesy of NBC's Robert Windrem and Garrett
Haake: This will be the first time in 40 years that Yale will not have
one of its former students on the ballot as president or vice
president. Not since Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew battled Hubert H.
Humphrey and Edmund Muskie in 1968 has Yale been shut out. Though Yale
has had the last three presidents (and five overall), Harvard (where
Obama went to law school) boasts the most presidents -- seven. And the
only president to boast of degrees from both... George W. Bush. As for
John McCain, per NBC's Abby Livingston, he would be only the second
Naval Academy graduate to rise to commander in chief. The other was
Jimmy Carter.

See You At the Polls!!!