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Early voting in Polk county Iowa: "The line .... never seemed to end" (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Sep 2012
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Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. Love the woman at the 1:04 minute mark! n/t
mucifer
(23,554 posts)2. K and R
Hukdonfonix
(56 posts)3. cool but have a question...
I always thought it was illegal to wear t-shirts and signs/buttons with political messages while voting???
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)6. That might vary from state to state, unless it's a fed law. Any ideas?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)8. All electioneering laws are local
Some have 5 feet, some 30 feet, some say you can't wear material in (although that's pretty rare, i'd guess), others do not. There is no federal law on these issues.
Hukdonfonix
(56 posts)10. I've seen t-shirts turned inside-out in my city polling location nt
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)11. That's a state or local thing
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)4. But there's no enthusiasm among Obama supporters. None at all...
Nope.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)5. It's so nice to see regular white folks voting for the President
Indicating all the racist rethug shit isn't working
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)7. Damn, am so proud
of people in my birth state!
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)9. This story will just explode conservative heads
How can it be!? How can it be?! they wonder...
Those idiots are in for a rude awakening on November 6.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)12. Big grin and thumbs up from me to those in Polk County
BTW - who was the news anchor - she has a lovely voice.