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2004 US Presidential Election
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November 02, 2004
Illinois | Interesting and surprising

We closed our poll and then set to work on the election judge duties no one ever sees. The only experience I have to compare the fatigue of a 15 hour precinct day to would be driving to Florida non stop. We had 522 voters out of a total of approximately 675. This is almost twice the number of voters we had in 2000.

Our precinct in Collinsville/Madison County is hugely democratic. All day we had poll watchers and party runners in and out checking their lists. But even so, Bush did very well. I was fairly shocked. Kerry won our precinct, but both he and Bush were in the 200’s in vote count. The major race in Southern Illinois is the Supreme Court Justice race between Republican Lloyd Karmeier and Democrat Gordon Maag. Maag, not surprisingly received the highest vote count, but Karmeier was not far behind. This was the race our democratic guys went all out for and it was close in spite of that. Amazing really.

The other race which surprised me was John Shimkus ® v Bagwell (D) for U.S. Congress. Bagwell received more votes than I ever would have expected. Shimkus is very well liked here and Bagwell did not campaign much. I am heading to the Shimkus election night party and will report more after.



Posted by Diane Meyer at November 2, 2004 09:39 PM | TrackBack
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