Early Voting

This is just breaking on the Colorado Springs Gazette's website, but there are hour long lines for early voting Colorado Springs. Considering the Springs is supposed to be considered the heart of Colorado GOP action (as well as its conservative core), this isn't good news.

Why? The specifics poll sites that are overcrowded are located near the lower-income and more minority-populated neighborhoods. (I wish there was a better way to put that, it makes it sound like a ghetto, which it isn't.) In other words, the area of heavy voting today is most definitely not the region of El Paso County that is GOP-friendly and heavily evangelical.

I never thought I'd see the day that the Springs, my hometown, would become battleground territory. But evidence shows otherwise. Here's a story about Obama raising more money than McCain in the Springs. Here's Michelle Obama drawing an overflow crowd to the City Auditorium. Here's Joe Biden drawing 1,500 to a high school gym.

Sure, McCain draws people, and sure, Palin is wildly popular in evangelical circles, especially north and east of the Springs, but these Dem numbers are bad news.

I've read this site for a few months, but I'm gettin' involved now, as we will soon start to inspect the ashes of what we used to call the GOP and there will be tough questions in need of answering. For example, in re: Colorado Springs:

What does it mean? Why did it happen? I have my guesses (I think the GOP overestimates the fidelity of evanglicals to the party, for one), but please leave your guesses and theories below.