During the media hoopla on Feb. 5, about that day’s 24-state “Super Tuesday” “national primary” for president, enthusiastic voters called election offices for the addresses of their polling places so they could run down and vote: 400 called in Virginia (but its primary would be the following week); 1,000 called in Dallas (its primary would be a month later); “hundreds” called in Florida (its primary was the week before). At least six people were lined up to vote by 6:30 a.m. at one precinct in Milwaukee (Wisconsin’s primary would be two weeks later).
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2008.