We’re in the midst of early voting here in North Carolina and since this is a hotly contested race in the presidential election we’ve actually had both candidates in the state quite a bit over the last of months (Obama) or couple of weeks (McCain).  Anyway, Senator Obama appeared in Fayetteville yesterday and urged people to vote early.  Below is some video shot outside one of the polling places that features a boisterous crowd of McCain/Palin supporters across the street from the polls.  About halfway through you’ll see one man interviewed who takes issue with the fact that extra local polling places were opened on a Sunday in order to handle an expected crush of voters from the rally.  It also seems that he’s taking issue with the Cumberland County board of elections opening up on Sunday in general, which he says was a special accommodation for the Obama folks.  I’ve only read that they opened up extra polling places, not that they opened up on Sunday expressly for the rally.  Still, the GOP is upset that it appears to give unfair advantage to the Democrats, and in fairness if the election board had done the same thing for McCain the Democrats would be up in arms too.  Anyhoo, I think this is going to be a VERY interesting election year although I can’t imagine a group of protesters outside my polling place which also happens to be my church.  BTW, I still think that’s weird.