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What fascinates me was how quiet it all was.
I don't know any other way to say that, but I have a little story to illustrate it. After the election, I was discussing it with a group of fellows at the college. Now, I live in a very conservative area with more churches than you can shake a stick at on any given block. I'm not trying to say that it's a bad thing, just trying to tell it right. Anyway, over the course of the discussion, I learned that the area churches had gotten together and were driving their parish to the polls to take advantage of early voting. In fact, they were making a series of trips two weeks before November 2nd. I heard one preacher told his flock that President Bush wants to save babies and if you want to save babies too, you'll vote for President Bush. A story I've heard from two other independent sources since. I didn't think much of it at the time, but when I voted early, I was in the middle of a church group of about 150. Out of nearly 25,000 registered voters in my little hometown, over 14,000 voted early. I would imagine a substantial number came in through the churches.
I'm not disparaging the local churches or making excuses as to why the Republicans "really" won. I was just amazed that this kind of grassroots movement was happening and all right under my nose, as I knew not a thing about it.
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