The ultimate poll comes Tuesday.
After close to two years of presidential maneuvering and campaigning, months after the major party candidates locked up their nominations and three months since local legislative match-ups were set, voters have the final say Tuesday.
Many of those participants in his great American democratic process have already stepped up to their responsibility and cast ballots in early voting.
A staggering 68,000-plus Rutherford County voters took advantage of early voting, close to half of the record 144,000 who registered to vote.
Various opinion polls from Associated Press and Pew on the national level to the City Café poll in downtown Murfreesboro have given us snapshots of how the various races may finally play out.
None of those polls puts a candidate in office. None are likely to be completely correct.
On the national level an open Oval Office and troubling times on many fronts has produced unprecedented interest, registration and participation in the election process.
That expanded level of participation may well make this the most difficult presidential election to predict in modern times, especially so as more people abandon home phones lines in favor of cell phones and complicate the polling methods.
Closer to home competitive races exist for every state legislative seat that is up for election. Here predictions are made difficult simply because of this community’s high growth rate and even higher mobility (the number of people moving in and out) rate.
Most of, not all, the legislative candidates seem to be out campaigning hard to the finish. The negative nature many of the races have taken in the last several days would indicate little comfort level by those running.
Tuesday’s voting will be the only and ultimate decision, one in which we hope to see the remaining 50-plus percent of eligible voters involved.
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