pretty steady. we re at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you haven t seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerk s office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they won t have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of state s office, they re expecting 250,000 ballots to be cast in this highly contested republican primary compared to last time in 2008, roughly 9,000 more, kyra. romney s had a pretty rough 48 hours. what kind of impact do you think that will have? reporter: i think the real test will come once all the votes are counted. what i can say though is that when he made the mistake yesterday of referring to enjoying firing people he was talking about insurance companies that aren t up to par. you s