Election Day!

It's election day - listen to all the fun rumours! Valentine Grimes has been arrested for carrying blank ballots (in Long Island no less - where there is no PLP on the ballot???)! Here in Abaco, someone has been arrested in Dundas Town for the same thing! Someone is planning to shoot Hubert Ingraham this afternoon! If you hear it, put it on the Coconut Telagraph in 25 words or less. Who knows how many more fun rumours you will hear before the day it out. Everyone's excited and running around with flags of the two main parties fluttering from their vehicles.

I voted at 9:15AM - my polling division is a small one, so my wife and I went right in. They actually moved it from it's regular location yesterday - we didn't find out until we went to the old one. No matter - it was just down the road. Got rid of most of the ink when I got home and now in my office half day.

I maintain that this election is going to be close - of the seats I called last night, Fox Hill was the one that gave me the most pause. I put it in the FNM column when really if I went by numbers and history only I would have left it PLP. It's just...I have a feeling about that one - Fred Mitchell is a polarizing figure where George Mackey was very much the opposite. My head said one thing and my gut said another and I went with my gut. Not that I do NOT make predictions with my heart - I put what I think will happen, not what I wish would. The PLP had a large crowd last night at Clifford Park - probably a record for them. Not as big as the FNM's mind you, but huge none the less. Those people you saw will be voting PLP just as those in red will be voting FNM. Let's all pray for peace no matter what the outcome.

I'll probably have a blog entry when the results start comming in with me calling seats as info becomes available. Doubt I'll be able to beat any of the stations, but based on some early numbers I can probably give some insight. Depends on how fast I get the numbers in.