Sunday voting in Ohio draws throngs of Obama backers

[TomCADem]

Source: LA Times

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Dale Snyder Sr., the pastor of Bethel AME Church in Columbus, surveyed the scene with satisfaction: Thousands of people, most of them African American, were waiting in a line that curved round and round the parking lot outside Franklin County’s early voting center.

Republicans had gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in their losing battle to stop just such a scene from occurring this weekend in Ohio. But there they were, most of them supporters of President Obama, braving a 45-degree chill for up to two hours to cast their ballots.

From Snyder’s standpoint, the Republican gambit had backfired. Bethel AME was one of 69 black churches in Columbus that had organized caravans of buses, vans and cars to take congregants to the strip mall where Franklin County had set up its lone early voting site.

Similar scenes unfolded Sunday in Cleveland, Cincinnati and other Ohio cities where the Souls to the Polls project was producing thousands more early votes for the president’s reelection. Many of those who showed up, Snyder said, were galvanized by the Republican drive to block weekend voting.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-early-voting-obama-ohio-20121104,0,1876486.story

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Tell a person he or she can't exercise a right

They tend to come back harder.

When the books are written about this election, there will be a chapter devoted to the voter suppression efforts and the way the Obama campaign leveraged them for turn-out operations. Especially in Ohio, where the stubbornness of the GOP administration made a national spectacle of their suppression efforts.

[daybranch]

9. People do not know

bout those King Mountain Boys who won th he first battle against the British in the revolutionary war and stopping the British fro controlling the soth as it already controlled the North. Yes the rich have rewritten history as they want but we the people have stood up unnoticed in so so many circumstances to make this country what it is when it is best. When the King of England proclaimed that the mountain land belonged to him, the King Mountain boys destroyed the so called best army in the world on that mountain and killing its general. We hillbillies here in Ohio must honor our proud heritage of standing up for our rights, against those who would take them away such as the republicans here in Ohio and in Washington DC. , Go to the polls, vote yes on Issue 2, vote for Sherrod Brown, President Obama, and the rest of the democratic ticket. The rich may try torewrite history but we people will be the ones who make it. GOTV for Obama, Ohio!!!

[Iliyah]

2. Husted, the criminal that he and Scott ( both Scotts FL & WI)

will try and find a way to make those votes disappear. God doesn't like ugly, and when Pres O wins I hope there will be a full investigation and conviction.

[wordpix]

3. thank you, Ohio!

[sheshe2]

6. + 1000

[freshwest]

5. History is being made. Kudos to all of them because they answered the question:

[sheshe2]

7. Love it!

Yes WE are!
Yes WE can!

[freshwest]

8. Did you see John Lucas's thread? Talk about positive! Needs to be on the Greatest page!