See you on the flip side, President Obama.
Nov. 1st, 2008 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constanceI went to early vote on Friday during my lunch hour -- the last day one could vote early, in my state -- and holy shit, the blocks-long line just to get in the door. I turned my car around and went back to work, and all the way back, I was thinking about the undoubtedly similar line I'll have to face on Tuesday; but after a couple of minutes I realized what I was seeing and got excited rather than annoyed at the inconvenience.
See, I've been a voter for twenty years now, and this is the first election I've been a part of that felt to me as though it were working the way a democracy is meant to work. People are all worked up about this election; whether they're voting for their candidate or against the other, they're passionate about doing it, determined that their voices'll be heard on Tuesday, that their votes be counted. I can't wait to see the news reports about the record turnouts. I can't wait to hear the numbers and the exit polls. And no matter who wins (although: O capricious universe, please please please let it be Obama), I hope people can tap into this excitement for the next election, and hit their polling places with just as much fervor in 2012. And that they can keep doing it.
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So. Hi! I skipped back 200 entries and only got to October 27, so, er, there are twenty days or so lj days that will have to remain lost to me forever, sorry. I am all drunk on chicken-with-rice soup tonight, and so am happy once, happy twice, obvsly, and I hope you are equally well. How are you, anyway?
See, I've been a voter for twenty years now, and this is the first election I've been a part of that felt to me as though it were working the way a democracy is meant to work. People are all worked up about this election; whether they're voting for their candidate or against the other, they're passionate about doing it, determined that their voices'll be heard on Tuesday, that their votes be counted. I can't wait to see the news reports about the record turnouts. I can't wait to hear the numbers and the exit polls. And no matter who wins (although: O capricious universe, please please please let it be Obama), I hope people can tap into this excitement for the next election, and hit their polling places with just as much fervor in 2012. And that they can keep doing it.
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So. Hi! I skipped back 200 entries and only got to October 27, so, er, there are twenty days or so lj days that will have to remain lost to me forever, sorry. I am all drunk on chicken-with-rice soup tonight, and so am happy once, happy twice, obvsly, and I hope you are equally well. How are you, anyway?
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Date: 2008-11-02 02:40 am (UTC)GOODGREAT OMG SOMEBODY MADE AN OFFER ON MY MOM'S HOUSE!Wow! I wasn't seeing that one coming! Seriously, I thought it wouldn't sell until next spring, and it's a good offer! I'm *leaping* on it.
And yay for lines of early voters!
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