W00t
I can't remember an election feeling more like a party than a civic duty.
Too young to get jazzed about Clinton, and in '00 I turned 18 three weeks too late to vote. In '04 no one stayed up to watch election coverage (let alone gathered together to celebrate) because it was just too darn depressing.
Also in '04 I did absentee for PA b/c I knew my vote would matter more there than in MA, so this was the first year I've been to an actual polling place. (And it was exciting up until I had to run back to my place and get proof of address.)
This year I also had the luck to spend election night with friends and up to the minute coverage. The energy in the room when everyone realized that, way ahead of schedule, Obama had won was what I can only imagine sports fans feel when "their team" wins. This instead of waking up the next day and dreading to read who the country picked as Commander in Chief.
America has proven it has more than one voice. Here here to all of those who voted for the first time or who voted their conscience rather than their designated party.
Too young to get jazzed about Clinton, and in '00 I turned 18 three weeks too late to vote. In '04 no one stayed up to watch election coverage (let alone gathered together to celebrate) because it was just too darn depressing.
Also in '04 I did absentee for PA b/c I knew my vote would matter more there than in MA, so this was the first year I've been to an actual polling place. (And it was exciting up until I had to run back to my place and get proof of address.)
This year I also had the luck to spend election night with friends and up to the minute coverage. The energy in the room when everyone realized that, way ahead of schedule, Obama had won was what I can only imagine sports fans feel when "their team" wins. This instead of waking up the next day and dreading to read who the country picked as Commander in Chief.
America has proven it has more than one voice. Here here to all of those who voted for the first time or who voted their conscience rather than their designated party.