Passed along from a reader:

Voted mid-morning in heavily Democratic Montgomery County, Maryland. Long lines; took about an hour. Afterwards I met a woman outside carrying a placard, “Democrat for Bush.” Her reasoning surprised me. She has two sons, ages 18 and 19, and gave up on Kerry because of his pledge to increase our armed forces by 40,000 soldiers or so. She seemed convinced that the greater chance of her sons being drafted lay with a Kerry Presidency. When I said I was surprised to find a Democrat for Bush here in Maryland, she mentioned that her brother-in-law, who is from Iran, and very liberal, is also voting for Bush out of consideration for his relatives back in Iran.