"Not a single black voter abandoned the long line"

That's the headline over a dispatch from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on early voting in Cobb. Co., Georgia, yesterday.

Just cast an early vote in Cobb County. Only took one hour, forty-five minutes -- exactly three weeks before Election Day.

A long line folded itself three times in a relatively hot October sun, shortly before lunch-time. Perhaps a dozen people couldn't stick it out -- they left before getting to the front of the line.

Every one of those who gave up the effort was white. Once in, not a single African-American walked away while I was there. If voter fatigue becomes a factor over the next three weeks, and on Election Day itself, one has to wonder if Republicans are more likely to lose out than Democrats.

Statistically speaking, my vote is sure to have helped push early voting in Georgia over the 500,000 mark today -- halfway to Secretary of State Karen Handel's goal of 1 million.

As of close of business Monday, 499,582 ballots had been cast. And Cobb County has been averaging 1,400 early votes a day.

The racial percentage has dropped slightly, but not significantly. African-Americans, numbering 184,453, have cast 37 percent of all early votes in Georgia. At 11 a.m. in Marietta, at least half the line was made up of black voters. Possibly more.