This is part two of my election day posts.

After my belly-of-the-beast morning at the Fairview Fire Department, I went home for lunch and a moment to rest. Of course I blogged the whole time I was at home, but what do you expect from MT.Net? I did manage to eat two pieces of pizza and take a quick nap before heading out to Westminster Church for the second half of my poll greeting.

I would be greeting for both Josh Stein and Grier Martin. I had campaign material for Josh but I had to pick up campaign materials for Grier’s campaign. On my way to Grier’s house I drove through the parking lot of the church. A lone poll greeter, behind an Obama sign, was outside surrounded by dozens of campaign signs but no voters. Seeing no Grier Martin greeter to relieve (and obtain campaign material from), I dropped by Grier’s house and returned with the pamphlets.
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One of the highlights of hanging out at the Dem’s party on election night was Roy Cooper. He gave a great speech after winning another term as attorney general and gave up the stage for the other candidates.

Thirty minutes later the crowd has thinned. I turned around and there’s Roy Cooper right behind me, with no entourage or anything, warmly shaking hands with folks in the crowd. I was impressed that the state’s top cop would take time to personally thank his supporters on election night. He was the only candidate I saw who made the effort to cross the rope line.

How cool is it that the one politician who got more North Carolina votes Tuesday than any other candidate (including McCain and Obama) is down to earth?

The Associated Press just announced that North Carolina joins the other states won by President-Elect Barack Obama. There are not enough provisional ballots left for John McCain to overcome his 14,000 vote deficit.

Unbelievable. I never thought it would happen but it did.