My family are Yellow Dog Dems. Polls open at 6am.


http://election.princeton.edu/

Straight dem tickets in my family!

in the Columbia area. My and my mom and grandmother went out and voted just a few minutes ago. Despite being a little polling place at the Boone Fairgrounds, I was #532 when I placed my ballot in the machine.

Living in one of the most Red of Red States, I appreciate your sentiment! Looooong lines at the polling stations (very unusual) on my drive in to work. I'll be voting at 3:35 p.m. when I get off. GoBama!

You peeps rock for putting up with the garbage you do!

3 votes for Obama from my household!

Voted for President Obama last Friday in Oklahoma. Good early voting turn out here from what I've heard.

Alabama.

Hi,

First time posting, but I have been lurking for some days.

Several of my family members will be voting for Obama, including my husband who is in Afghanistan!

I'm from the red state of Missouri....hope and pray that color is changing this year as
no one seems to like Aiken....

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Wearing blue pants, blue shirt, blue tie.

Not presenting photo ID.

Voting for President Obama and Senator McKaskill!!! Come on blue states! Finish this job!

You did your homework. You get a gold star. If you all vote, you could actually turn your state purple for us. Thanx again!

As I said earlier in the week on another thread, it doesn't matter whether you live in a state you know will go Obama (eg. California) or you know will go Romney (Idaho).

Every vote still matters in states like this because it all goes into the Popular Vote 'Pot' that the media will be looking at during the night in trying to determine whether Obama has a 'mandate'.

So make sure you vote even if it doesn't effect the Electoral College, because it will effect the Popular Vote.

We appreciate every Democrat you get to the polls today!

Voted and I'm hoping like mad we stay blue this election.

I was first in line today at 4:15am - yikes! Sadly I live in conservative west county St Louis, but my precinct’s first vote went for Obama and McCaskill!!!

I moved here 20 years ago from another red state – South Carolina! Why can’t I get to a blue state???

Go Dems! I am fired up!

Oh look – my first post EVER on DU!!! Woo hoo!

Who is to say there isn't a small chance Obama can snag Indiana?

Thanks for the appreciation - sometimes it feels pointless to vote in a red state but I always will.

We're glad you're here!

You're a brave soul--I don't know how people in super-red states cope. My neighborhood is reddish purple, which is bad enough, but at least my state is blue!

My town is in one of the bluer parts of the state so that keeps me sane(ish).

Thanks for your kind words.

VA resident here doing my best to keep President Obama in office.

the Indiana Democrats and all the rest on the red states Thank You for supporting us...

I know it's hard to vote in a state that you know won't turn blue. So thank you guys for getting out and making your vote count.

Doing our best. Thanks for the kudos.

Just wanted to say THANKS to all of you Red State Dems, too...

From the land of Arizona and Arapaio. Awash in a sea of tea party fascists.

We have a great congressman from Louisville in John Yarmuth! Folks, downticket races matter!

I voted, and I took my two adult children with me to make sure THEY voted too! My son voted for the FIRST TIME, and he was soooo proud! (Pops was too, I must say!)

Bake

You are not forgotten!

I just voted for BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!!! My partner will be voting this evening.

It hasn't been easy, but I think we've made a difference.

I've been called "baby killer" many times and attacked for voting for a "Muslim"....and all the other Faux News bs.

Heck, it's easy being Liberal in the West Village in NYC where I live. In some red states, you run the risk of alienation or even worse physical violence.

in one of the reddest areas of Texas!

I was in line by 6:15 this morning!!! I will not allow the rest of the state of OK to speak on my behalf - we are few but we are here! More than anything, I am truly honored to have the privilege to vote for President Obama again!

I did what I could, contributed more than I should have been able to afford, talked to who I could, consulted with the man I voted for:

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Then I sent my useless, but nonetheless cast, vote from Dallas by absentee from Germany.

My state will not the way I did. I'm confident that my country will, though.

Appreciate the recognition for the work being done down here! We are trying hard!

The Red Zone is slowly going purple...and then Blue...

Thanks for having the guts to hang in there. The temptation to flee must be heavy at times.

our daughter, aged 18 years and 2 months, casting her first-ever vote at 6am!

We need to get Missouri back to "swing state" contention here, if not solid blue.

It was very satisfying to help Claire McCaskill overcome Akin, though.

But here's something: I'm a middle-aged white male, in a currently-red state, but it's not like I'm some bizarre anomaly. The majority in that demographic may not vote with us, but thousands and thousands of us do (and proudly, and some of us fiercely!)

Still hoping we'll be blue tonight!

Living in FL, hoping that we stay Blue!

enough votes to keep Cruz out of the Senate.

Everyone is pumped! Turnout is heavier than I've ever seen in my life!

I live in a county that is 99% republican. I voted early, and have been talking to undecided voters for weeks.
I convinced my pest controller into voting for President Obama today. Made me feel good!

Otherwise known as Jackson Hole. We are a lone blue puddle in an ocean of red, but we consistently refuse to let the red flood take the entire state. Wyoming Democrats will gather tonight at the Betty Rock Cafe here in Jackson to watch returns. We'll cheer as each of the blue states get called.

Thanks Red state dems.

hopefully one day we will see blue

Hats off to NC, you guys have turned NC into a legitimate swing state. I look forward to seeing it blue again in the near future.