Vote Today!
UPDATE 11:30 AM EDT:
Look at what I just got!
Now if you will just bear with me for a few. I cast my first ballot for POTUS in 1976. It was an absentee ballot. I don’t think I have missed one since.
Today when I touched that screen and saw what I was doing it was all I could do to keep from bursting into tears. I kid you not. I have never felt so emotional about voting in my life.
I am not sure why. Maybe it is the historic nature of this election. That might sound trite. Maybe it is because I just finished reading Reconciliation by Benazir Bhutto. It brought home to me how much some people and their families in other countries have sacrificed for the opportunity to vote.
Maybe this is silly and I shouldn’t have shared.
But it is true. I touched those screens and came to the very last one. There on the screen was noted all the decisions I had made and how I had cast my votes.
I double checked to ensure I had picked as I had planned. I stood and gazed at that screen and felt so emotional. As I said, it was a struggle to hold back tears.
I finally touched the “Vote” marker and walked out.
I walked to my car elated and wondering if maybe I was part of history being made.
November 4th, 2008 at 6:53 am
I liked the sign someone posted near my house posted right next to a McCain-Palin sign. It read, “I’m John McCain and I approved this message. Vote Obama-Palin!”
November 4th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Done. It’s going to be a great day! It has to be it’s my Birthday….which is nice they give the kids the day off because of the election, works for me!!
November 4th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Carey: How were the lines when you voted up in your neck of the woods? They have been crazy here this morning with two hour waits.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:58 am
The polls opened at 7 am here in the Philly suburbs. I was there at 7, and it was a two and a half hour wait. It’s my first election, and it was totally worth standing in line for that long. Hopefully we’ll be hearing good results tonight!
November 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Congratulations on your first election!
November 4th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
i had very similiar feelings as BO’s name appeared on the screen with “President of the United States” next to it.
WOW!!!
it will be interesting to see in the future how many people regret not voting for BO. It seems like many folks who voted for the red team because that’s what they do, might look back and realize they were on the wrong side of a historic vote.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I read some very cool experiences about people from other countries who became U.S. citizens and today was the FIRST time ever they have been able to vote! Its an exciting day and I don’t blame you for getting emotional. I would have gotten emotional too, but I voted last week in the comfot of my own home, where I could be as emotional as I wanted to be in private.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
We are on the world’s stage with a huge audience and so many of us are participating. I hope we the people, waiting in long lines sometimes for hours, show the world the American people do care.
November 4th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
*I* cried and I didn’t even vote. I just watched people from my Canadian tv vote. Up at 4 in the morning?! That doesn’t happen in Canada. It’s beautiful and emotional and other bloggers have said the same thing you have.
Thanks so much for stopping by with your astute comments.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
well i didn’t quite appreciate it as much as you uncle kim, but i felt that same way when i got to actually cast a heisman vote for colt mccoy (not to belittle the freedom we enjoy to vote in our country)
November 5th, 2008 at 12:17 am
LOL I Love the top image… I am glad we are getting a new president! And I’m glad he’s democrat!
November 5th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I couldn’t hold back the tears when I heard Obama’s speech. I believe he is a very special person that will take us far.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:55 am
While I did not get so sentimental while voting , I totally teared up when I heard he had won…
Obama’s victory is significant for breaking traditional barriers not just here in the US, but for its potential to also influence “change” in other nations’ psyche - the world has been watching this race very very closely…