Slog - Comments on Where's Gary? Waiting till the time is ripe. . . http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip By the by, my slog moniker "Chicago Fan" refers to politics as well as sports, and when I got done teaching tonight and logged on to see that the results from Lake County Indiana, an Obama stronghold, hadn't come in yet, it was deja vu all over again. Back in the bad old days of ballot-box stuffing and vote stealing, it was common practice for political bosses to withhold results from precincts or larger areas that they knew would go overwhelmingly their way. They wanted to know exactly how much over they needed to whelm. Hence, in the 1960 Presidential... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:00:14 -0800 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:01:47 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ad Turnout in Lake county was very high. Polling places were unprepared. Judges ordered extensions. Returns came in later than other places.

]]> Ad http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016794 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016794 Politics Tue, 06 May 2008 20:18:06 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay i've been through Gary on the train!

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016795 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016795 Politics Tue, 06 May 2008 20:22:11 -0800 Comment by Bryce Beamish the mayor of Gary is smiling right now. and he seems to be an Obama supporter:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/06/gary_mayor_predicts_possible_i.html

]]> Bryce Beamish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016810 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016810 Politics Tue, 06 May 2008 20:39:56 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I must say, the last time I was in Chicago, I appreciated their fine fine monorail.

That and their p0wnage of Sen Clinton ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wheres_gary_waiting_till_the_time_is_rip#c1016896 Politics Tue, 06 May 2008 22:01:47 -0800