RYC: Yep, got there at 6:45 am, left at around 12, so it was a matter of endurance.  Luckily, people were nice enough to hold your place in line if you wanted to go around the corner to the convenience store for a 64-oz diet Coke.  Two of my main issues were, of course, the presidency, but also a "Proposition M," which would expand the public transportation system.  Of course, it went down in semi-spectacular flames. People don't care about things they don't have to use, and St. Louis is not built as a public transportation city, but as a car town. Since gas is now less than $2 a gallon, people didn't feel that they would ever have to give up their car for a while.  Of course, no one has thought about what this is going to do to the enrollment of the community colleges, which are the hardest hit--out of three, only one (my work campus) will have bus service if all this goes through.  The campus I need to take my last class to FINALLY graduate is on the chopping block, and there's really no way to get there by bike, since it's 15 miles.  I can only hope that they raise fares, as odd as that sounds, so that they won't cut the 40% of bus services they plan, but much less.

Ah, to live in a "real" city!