I live in Indiana, and I'm cautiously optimistic about the chance of the state going blue this election.  I have some concerns, however, regarding an early resounding victory for Obama.  My worry is that down ticket items like Prop 8 in California the congressional races will not receive the vote that they might have in the West because people won't bother to vote once Obama wins. 

If you knew that your candidate had already won (barring some massively unlikely turn of events where California goes red or something similar), would you wait in a three or four hour line?  Perhaps, but you are also reading political blogs.  Would your neighbor?  Would the mom with two little kids to take care of?  I know that Republicans are pushing people to vote in spite of their almost sure defeat in the presidential election, and that they would know that their fight was lost just as early as we'd know ours was won, but those long lines somehow seem to happen in the liberal areas more often than the conservative.

I want Obama to win convincingly, by a large margin both in the popular vote and the electoral, and again, I'd love to see Indiana go blue, but I also want both houses of Congress to go strongly for the Dems, and Prop 8 makes me sick to my stomach.  I guess I'm left with hoping that the enthusiasm I have seen here sustains itself across the country and that Obama's supporters feel a need to help him win resoundingly across the country. 

I live in a relatively well-off section of Ft. Wayne, IN.  It's certainly urban, but it's not a place that has seen much in the way of Obama activity.  The signs are here, but badly outnumbered...  I was heartened when I got to the poll this morning at 6:02.  There was already a line of about 40 people, many talking happily about voting and slipping in last minute Obama/Long-Thompson (IN Dem governor candidate) references.  There were a lot of folks wearing blue shirts too, and only a few red (Yes, people wear blue shirts more than red in general, but let me be happy about it!)  It was a wonderful thing to see, and gives me a lot of confidence regarding the state.  I don't know if it will actually go Obama's way, but the possibility is heartening.

By the time I got out of the precinct 45 minutes later (only 3 voting machines) the line was at least twice as long, still largely populated by blue shirters.