Northern Baltimore County, Maryland
We deployed our brood of six to the polls early today, at 8:30 am, where there was already a line 90 minutes long! When we finally left the parking lot at 10:30, the line was doubled up
and still out the door!
This is a positive sign and for good reason. Four years ago, much of the rural population stayed home. There was no wait at the two polling stations in our district. Folks were unenthusiastic and simply chose to disengage.
But this year looks to be different from here in agrarian Maryland. Yes, Maryland will still be solid blue. But if what I see here is a reflection of country mice across this nation, and the conservatives in the outlying counties and the tiny corners of the USA come out to cast a ballot, then this could be an indicator of a positive outcome in the much needed swing states.
I’d be interested in hearing what’s going on in other parts of our beautiful country. Please post a snapshot if you can!
Audie Cockings is a happy wife and mom to four kiddos living on the Fresh Coast in Northern Michigan. When she's not concocting fictitious narratives of strong but thoroughly flawed women for Liberty Island, she is slinging paint or crafting meals for six from local forest flora and fauna (read: Chukkar with morels). Audie works as an eldercare consultant by day and an associate editor for Liberty Island in the wee hours. She has been published in PJ Media, Liberty Island, and in two Midwest health care journals.
New to the editing staff at Liberty Island, Audie will be focused on developing authors and novels for readers with indoor plumbing. Period works (think 80's and 90's), dry humor, historical fiction, and stories of devout but dysfunctional families and friendships are encouraged for submission. Positive outcomes and finding blessings in disasters are of particular interest, as are stories of women and the men who make them nuts.
Audie plans to spend her retirement catching up on lost sleep.
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