The Sleep Time and Rise "n"Shine Thread for 10/21-22/08, Part 2:Black People Are Voting Early, According to WSJ

(Photo from the Associated Press, via the Wall Street Journal)

Tremendous news indeed.

Despite a little semi-weird title from the nevertheless great TPM....

Disproportionate Number Of African-Americans Casting Early Ballots

....African-Americans are turning out not only in big numbers, but they (and I can use "we" since I'm black, and you can use "we" since you are American if you aren't black) are voting early!!!!

Americans are voting early in large numbers this year -- and African-Americans in several states are turning out in disproportionate numbers. Some fear that polling places in predominantly black neighborhoods will be overwhelmed by a record turnout on Election Day. Others are voting early to be certain the chance to elect the first black U.S. president doesn't slip away.

There are a lot of great quotes in this wonderful story reported by the Wall Street Journal of all Murodochian papers. For example, this one:

During the lunch rush at the polls, the line stretched out of the building and onto the sidewalk. The majority of people waiting to vote were black. "I didn't think it would happen in my lifetime," 54-year-old truck driver David McIntosh said of Sen. Obama's candidacy.

Mr. McIntosh said when he was a child, his parents used to raise bail money every time they decided to drive the 75 miles from Atlanta to Athens, Ga., to visit Mr. McIntosh's grandparents. They feared they would be stopped and jailed somewhere along the route no matter how slowly or carefully they drove, he recalled.

"America will never be the same after this election, whether Obama wins or loses," he added.

And in this must read article, here is one example of blacks turning out big in key states in the incipient stages of the general election voting process.

In Florida, African-Americans accounted for 21% of ballots cast Monday even though they make up 13% of voters. In North Carolina, African-Americans accounted for 33% of ballots cast as of Monday even though they make up 21% of voters.

Voting early: Something that will not give you headaches (unless you are apart of the voter suppression, anti-American, un-American undemocratic movement in tis country).