Just got back from voting at about four after picking up my son after going to the funeral of Phil Robinson in Elgin.

It started snowing just before I entered McHenry County.

It is really coming down.

I drove past South School where there was zero chance of parking, so I went home.

The Crystal Lake Police car was still there, but, now, covered with snow.

The school folks want protection from intruders on election day and have been accommodated.

Thought maybe I might have time for a late lunch.

Before I reached home I saw there had been at least one accident on Lake Avenue, a 30 mile per hour road.

The roads are just treacherous.

After picking up my son, it was off to the polling place at the Crystal Lake Park District’s Main Beach House.

Driving past, one would have a hard time knowing there was an election. One of the two signs announcing a polling place was covered with snow.

Two precincts are crowded into a little room when they used to have the main room.

Now, karate is more important than voting.

Go figure.

I cast my vote and asked my typical question about how many had voted.

“62 Democrats and 60 Republicans,” I was told. That was for my precinct, Algonquin 7.

This is a precinct that went 75% Republican in the 1988 presidential election, dropping in 1992 to 50% GOP, 25% for Ross Perot and 25% Democrat.

At 4 o’clock the percentage was running 51%–about the same as the early voting split.

The other precinct, Algonquin 19 had 79 GOP votes and 61 Democrats.

56% Republican.

In the 1992 primary election, lots of woman took a Democratic Party ballot to vote for Carol Mosley Braun.

This seems to mirror that and more.