Voters Head to the Polls on Super Tuesday

It’s Super Tuesday as Georgians and voters from nine other states across the nation head to the polls to cast their vote for their preferred Republican presidential nominee.

Huffington Post Polling Editor Mark Blumenthal predicts that Mitt Romney will take Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia. He also predicted a toss-up in Ohio, which he said could be the tiebreaker in the race. Howard Fineman, Huffington Post editorial editor, predicts the Ohio competition will be between Santorum, who will play up his west Pennsylvania roots, and Romney who will cater to the state’s political establishment. Blumenthal said the large number of evangelical Christians down South will make Georgia, Tennessee and even Oklahoma a toss-up between Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

last week, Gingrich said scoring a win in Georgia is crucial to his campaign.

“I have to win Georgia, I think, to be credible in the race,” he said. “Because if I win Georgia, the following week we have Alabama and Mississippi and I think I’ll win both of those and we have a good opportunity to win in Kansas.”

The presidential preference primary isn’t the only thing on Cobb County voters’ minds. Voters in Powder Springs, Marietta, Austell and Cobb County will have the option to allow package sales of alcohol on Sundays. the measure should pass in all municipalities.

According to the Cobb County Board of Elections some voters have already placed votes. When early voting closed Friday, 11,205 Republicans, 883 Democrats and 91 non-partisan voters had cast their ballots. Additionally, as of March 2 Republicans had cast 2,886 absentee ballots, Democrats 253 and non-partisan voters 18. Jane Eveler, director of Cobb County Board of Elections, reported that voter turnout on election day for presidential preference primaries is usually in the low 30 percent range.

Voters can check their registration status, view sample ballots and find directions to their polling place on the Cobb County Board of Elections website. There are 19 polling places in Smyrna-Vinings:

-, 3920 Hurt Road

-, 240 Interstate North Parkway

-, 1885 Roswell Street

-, 1101 Windy Hill Road

-, 4555 Mavell Road

-, 3059 South Cobb Drive

-, 4300 King Springs Road

-, 2420 Spring Road

-Fire Station No. 3, 2825 Park Road

-, 1275 Church Street

-, 200 Village Green Circle Southeast

-, 3265 Brown Road Southeast

-, 605 Glendale Place Southeast

-, 3295 Atlanta Road Southeast

-, 4010 King Springs Road

-, 4100 King Springs Road

-, 2375 Paces Ferry Road Southeast

-, 4135 Atlanta Road

-, 3795 Cochise Drive

Once polls open, check with Smyrna-Vinings Patch throughout the day for up to the minute coverage of elections throughout Metro Atlanta. Have any thoughts about the election? Did you snap a photo outside your polling place? Share it with Smyrna-Vinings Patch.