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One Voter Bucks The Community Trend In St. Pete

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By PHILIP MORGAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

4:49 p.m.: The Pinellas Community Church, 54th Avenue South and 31st Street, saw heavy voting early this morning that eventually trailed off, but there's been a steady stream of voters in the afternoon. There have been no complaints of long lines. One man said "it was so simple a 2-year-old could do it."

The crowds seemed to be predominantly Obama supporters, but Polly Demma, 54, came striding out of the church wearing her Republican red coat. She'd just finished voting the straight Republican ticket, she said.

McCain "serves his country," she said. "He has put the country first even above his own life. He deserves to be our president. I'm proud of what he's done."

She was offended by racist remarks she said Obama made earlier in the campaign.

Looking around south St. Petersburg around 4 p.m., there are still some sparse crowds around St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church at 34th Street and 38th Avenue South and Lake Maggiore Baptist Church, where voter traffic was slow at 2:30 p.m. but picking up at a brisk pace after 4:30 p.m.

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