In an office. I got out to vote though, plenty of eager poll workers ready to pounce on me. Has anyone heard about Knox's satellite office being robbed??? By his own eday workers no less!

what poll? I want to know which of my volunteers was very eager!

Maybe it's contagious. I saw him at Rittenhouse Park yesterday and he was by himself handing out flyers to everyone sitting on the benches. I was pretty impressed!

I'm trapped in an office too but voted this morning around 10:15 at the Greenfield School at 22nd and Chestnut. I was the 67th voter, there was no line at all, and there was not one single volunteer outside giving out a single thing. Not even the official Dem ballot!!!

One of the committeewomen in my district runs the polling place (Chinatown - Ward 5 District 13) and they couldn't get things up and running till 8:30am. Really ticked me off and turned away probably 40-50 people. If this was a national election I'd be ready to kick someone's ass but still....not cool people!

I visited 5 polling places bearing my Nutter gear throughout center city and only saw people touting Untermeyer, Nutter, and a few Brady. All in all I thought it was quiet during the 7-12pm hours.

Also noticed the plane flying around the city with the "Someone says Knox=Shark" banner. It was almost impossible to read though so I don't know who their audience is.

Evans/Miller people everywhere is the norm in the Northwest.

Seriously 4 at every poll. I have seen little from Fattah, and zero from Nutter.

In terms of the 8th, Evans, win or lose, is def helping Donna Miller quite a bit.

I voted at Wilson Middle School, polling location for Ward 53, Div 17-8, and Ward 56, Div 2, at approximately 10:30 AM. Took a "neither seek, nor avoid" approach to those handing out literature. Decent amount of workers hanging out on the steps, who were fairly active with lit handouts. Received palm cards for:

Tom Knox (also "Democratic reform ballot")
Bob Brady
Maria Quinones Sanchez
Dan Savage
Juan Ramos
Bob Mulgrew
Scott Cummings (despite explicitly identifying myself as a Democrat)

No one did much of a "sell" for their candidates as they handed out lit, other than the Cummings rep (again, the one for whom I could definitely not vote).

Once inside the school lobby (but presumably still within the safe area for electioneering, as there was still some distance between it and the auditorium holding the voting machines), there was a table with someone with more Brady lit, and possibly a sample Democratic ballot. However, I mistakenly approached a table with someone who was there to address actual school-related matters. From there, I just proceeded to the auditorium. I never did get anything purporting to be a sample Democratic ballot.

After signing in, there was a wait of only a few minutes. There were two machines for my division, and both were occupied when I signed in. However, there was nobody else in front of me in line.

Signage and people presence at this polling location was dominated by Brady, followed by Knox. The Knox and Brady people weren't exactly the most active ones here, but I wouldn't say that was the case at all of the locations where I did a quick walkby. Significant signage, relatively speaking, for Quinones-Sanchez. Some signs for Nutter, as well as for Derek Green, though no one handing out lit.

From 3:30-4:30 I did a little tour around the neighborhood and walked by polling locations for Ward 53, Div 20, and Ward 56, Div 4,9,14-16,37. Again, a lot of Brady and Knox people. Presence deviating from the routine: at the location for 53-20 and 56-9, John Green signs; at the location for 56-16,37, Bill Greenlee signs.

1) Elderly ladies in Chinatown are frightened of me.
2) People in the Gayborhood are polite, friendly, and largely for Nutter.
3) People in Society Hill are curt and stressed-sounding, but also largely for Nutter.

Yeah, so that's not very deep. You know what's nice? Not standing anymore. I'm fixing myself a drink, and deciding what I want to wear to the victory(?) party.

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Volunteering for Michael Nutter

if the polling place I was at is any indication. Also, the Savage supporters were quite plentiful.

ETA--Also, the standing? I'm over it too.

Dude, I think you are behind a couple elections. Scott Cummings is running as a democrat this cycle.

For disclosure I served as Chaka's Policy Director during the Exploratory Process. After taking some time off to be with my new baby, I got called back into service last week for a very different purpose. I have had the pleasure of running the field operation for The Economic Justice Coalition for Truth. In my travels today I saw a tremendous field operation mounted by the Fattah campaign: Gregg Naylor is a GOTV genius.

As for the polls ... they are probably indicative of what is going on with Nutter in the lead but ... think about this for a moment.

The last Keystone poll sample universe was small; it had Women outnumbering men by a 3 to 2 margin. A full 45% of respondents made over $50k. It was over-sampled 49% white to 45% African American and 37% of respondents had at least a 4 year college degree.

What Philadelphia was Terry Madonna polling?

With this said ... don't be surprised if Fattah pulls off a 3-5 point win tonight -- if he was able to get his ID'd voters out to the polls

We will all know very shortly.

http://elections.cbslocal.com/cbs/kyw/20070515/

(sorry if I violated any rules, I did not take the time to read prior to posting.)

It's not clear who's in yet.

Tom Knox just conceded.

Just wondering...

I'm registered as no affiliation. I voted in 15th ward and when I approached the machine, a poll worker asked me, "Republican or Democrat?" It wasn't particularly busy, so I guess the ladies at the sign-in table might have corrected me, but what was stopping me from picking one of his two options? How many folks did this on election day? I told him, "I have no affiliation" and he had to ask some other poll worker how to properly set the machine.