View from Austin’s East Side
March 4th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
A caucusing friend just called in to report that she’d just successfully completed her caucus duties, having waited in line for 2 hours to do so, and having left a line estimated at another several hours behind her. The polling place, near Pleasant Valley and Oltorf on Austin’s east side, was described as a “ghetto apartment complex,” poorly lit and seemingly designed to discourage turnout with its spooky voter entrance all the way around back. That description, though, was belied by a crowd estimated at 500, including all of about a dozen Republicans pulled out of line to caucus among themselves while the Dems wait. But Dems, eastside and otherwise, have been waiting a long time, and they don’t seem to mind waiting a bit longer to help choose an administration they can live with.
