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Enough of the politicking, what about the voting itself? NBC's Michelle Kosinksi stood in awe next to early voters in Georgia's DeKalb County: "There are 1200 people in line right now where we are and we have not heard a single complaint." She reported that the conventional early voter is white, male and Republican: "This year we are seeing far more women, African-Americans and younger voters." On CBS, Armen Keteyian previewed the prospect of 80% voter turnout on Election Day and found "widespread anxiety that the system, both men and machine, may simply overload" and "fears over poorly trained poll workers, machine malfunction--and even the number of machines." Pennsylvania, for example, has one machine for every 350 voters; in Virginia the ratio is 1:750.
In celebration of a musical, non-partisan, get-out-the-vote effort, anchor Charles Gibson selected the debating society of Atlanta's Ron Clark Academy as ABC's Persons of the Week. Having thrashed out the defining principles of the platforms of John McCain and Barack Obama, the debaters rendered them as a dance video You Can Vote However You Like. At last count it had in excess of 500,000 hits on YouTube.
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