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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Election Day Scenes: Beauty shop debate rages on

Inquirer staff writer Jacqueline L. Urgo reports:

By early afternoon things were getting decidely ugly at the beauty supply store. Outside the Ulta on Route 73 in Marlton sisters Devon and Dina Schreiber were hosting their own debate.

The 21-year-old twins were being urged by their mom, via cell phone, to go and vote on their way home from shopping. Mom, by the way, voted Democrat.

Devon seemed convinced. The early education major at Rowan University, she said she is squarely behind reelecting Corzine.

But Dina, a bio-engineering student at Boston University taking a semester off, said she can’t bring herself to cast a reelection vote for the governor because of his various policies involving taxes. She was thinking of voting for Daggett, until it occurred to her that that vote “might not really count in the scheme of things.”

“We saw what happened the last time people started making protest votes and Bush got elected,” Dina Schreiber said. “My boyfriend’s a Republican and keeps on telling me I should go for Christie. But I don’t like him either. But that’s who I’ll probably go with.”

“If you vote for Christie I’ll never speak to you again,” Devon Schreiber told her sister, who stuck her tongue out in reply. “And you can’t borrow any of my clothese anymore.”

The pair were still arguing as they drove off.

In Moorestown, Claire Somers said she had been “hounded” by the “Republican machine” to put a sign on her lawn supporting Christie.

“I guess I’m not completely sold on Christie, but I am willing to give him a chance,” said Somers, 42, who voted for the Republican. “I think we need a change in Trenton.”

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