Historic. They're showing it on NBC also. Damn, he must be tired...I get all these motherly feelings. : )
kh7463
· 1 year ago
And after today he has his grandmother's funeral to get through.
FloridaMom
· 1 year ago
I am in tears! YES WE CAN!!!
grandma
· 1 year ago
Me too !
Yes we will !
Gridlock
· 1 year ago
Be funny if the machine tried to flip his vote to McCain
Well.. funny, and sad.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, oh my, what a wonderful day Plenty of sunshine headin' our way !
wooo hoooo
paulbot5
· 1 year ago
It took him a long time to vote because he was searching the 'present' button
RIPWAMU
· 1 year ago
You cannot ruin our day today with your crappy comments.
Voting today is one of the proudest days of my life.
MyVoice
· 1 year ago
When I read the comment I pressed the ignore user in my head.
Patrick_Bateman
· 1 year ago
My bride is quite concerned about "something happening".
We are both trying to assuage our anxieties.
We will both be on the computers for the majority of the day on and off keeping up with the latest updates,
Even our 8 year old daughter on her young feminist website will be a close observer.
bill__free
· 1 year ago
Why is there no thread about SNL last night?
Am I the only one that thought that SNL was out of line for having McCain on Saturday and then McCain & Palin on Monday??
And Palin flop big time, or was it just me that thought almost no one was laughing. I had heard that Palin wasn't in the studio & it was taped, but still no crowd reaction?
MyVoice
· 1 year ago
I watched and her taped part was not really funny to me. It actually fit her "personality" in my opinion. The halloween party with the real Obama and "Clintons" was funny though.
MyVoice
· 1 year ago
Let everyone know that if they are still in line and have not voted and it is getting close to the poll closing time to stay in line. They will have to let the people in line vote even if the polls are closing. Just make sure you are in line prior to the poll closing time.
kh7463
· 1 year ago
Our local papers had it in the headlines again this morning, if you're in line at 6 pm you'll be able to vote. I wasn't able to work the polls this year (doc orders), but I will be there to help after work.
erick28
· 1 year ago
So do i. I think thise election made me so emotionally invested to it. but i honestly love what im feeling... TODAY is the day that CHANGE will have chance to happen.
I just hope that you continue posting stuff that matters!
lilyannerose
· 1 year ago
Rather like the moment of absolute clarity I I had last summer when I realized that America could really put Barack, Michelle and their children into the White House this January. At that moment I was in complete recall of the memory of barely being in my teens and looking at photos in the newspapers of the dogs of Selma, Alabama, what a long long way we've come!
Barack Obama is just one of those rare men of the cosmic hour, as if the cosmos had absolute knowledge of the need and the time of need, I just feel it on the sixth sense level.
How many dreams are being realized on how many levels at this moment across our country and the world?
I'm feeling like such a emotional ole grannie today!
grandma
· 1 year ago
Her vote will count!
Ms. Dunham’s absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for processing absentee mail ballots… She was alive at that time. Her ballot will be opened tomorrow, and it will be counted in the same way that all absentee voters would be treated under our law.
If one small place in Illinois is any indication this voter turnout is going to be huge. My brother sent me an email. He was going to vote before work at the his polling place. Said he never, ever had to wait in line to vote BUT this morning the line to vote was very very long. He was shocked.
After all these months of so much immense anxiety - not to mention the toll the last eight years have taken - when I stood in the voting booth this morning and pulled the lever for Obama, I burst into tears....and I'm sure it won't be the last time on this historic day. In that moment, I was thinking so much of the people who laid down their bodies and in some cases their lives to insist on their rights....and how Obama is standing on their shoulders today. I, like others, remember watching those courageous and determined people being attacked with nightsticks and dogs and hoses on TV....and of course, I'm remembering the murders we didn't see. I'm remembering Martin Luther King and how he would feel if he could see Barack Obama today, about to become the leader of the free world. It's overwhelming.
lilyannerose
· 1 year ago
I completely get where you are!
I barely slept, I'm already in tears and I haven't been to the polls yet. I emailed my granddaughter and told her today my vote belonged to her!
I've been so busy over the last eight years yelling, screaming and fighting when there was a fight to fight that I ignored just how emotionally battered we are as a people! I never would have imagined an election being so emotional, only here it is and here we are!
camille
· 1 year ago
Thank you for writing. What a glorious day this is!
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The clown teevee heads blathered on about politics and missed completely the warm family scene playing out before their camera eyes...So much damn forest nobody can see trees. But the Obama dynamic was facinating...Melia replaying a tune in her head as the Senator could be seen hunched over his ballot...That Mrs. Obama took longer to vote than her husband...The warm paternal focus the Senator gave Melia after voting... This warm, casual potentially First Family stuff or "color" as it's called in the nooz biz, the warm schmaltzy background stuff, went over the inflated heads of early morning cable, sadly.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
thanks for covering it for us, prezz!
djhwood
· 1 year ago
I've been a surrogate speaker here in NY for presidential campaigns, worked on GOTV drives, was even a poll worker when I was a teen, but never have I EVER felt better in registering my vote as I was this morning for Barack!! I brought my twin 5 yr. old boys and my 3 yr old daughter (as I have since they were born to every time I've voted) so that they could be part of being involved in history. It was great! I even double checked to make sure my vote was right!!!!!
seohio
· 1 year ago
I almost teared up watching Sasha and Malia walk in with their parents this morning. It's difficult to imagine what they felt when their parents showed them their father's name on the ballot for President. WOW!! What a day for the history of the United States.
pauljwlr
· 1 year ago
I showed up to vote at 7:01am and there were already 12 people ahead of me. I'm usually the first or second one there. I live in western PA in a small town of around 4000 people. turnout here looks heavy compared to the last 2 elections. I took a drive around town before i came to work and the parking places at the other polling places were already full of cars. Hopefully those cars were full of Obama voters.
iamevolved
· 1 year ago
I was in line by 7:15 am for the polls opening at 8:00 am. By 8:00 am, the line was well out the door. I have never seen so many people lined up so early in any election I have ever voted in. This is an epic day. I am glad to be a part of it. I love Election Day more than most holidays. Get out and vote and have a great day.
Go Obama!!!
burro
· 1 year ago
BARACKING THE VOTE!!
Feels like X-mas.
dad
· 1 year ago
Our Great Nation!
burro
· 1 year ago
P.S. Kudos to AMERICAblog. You guys have been very significant contributors to the Progressive community that has made the many potential victories of today possible. It's no small achievement. "Power doesn't concede." And in this historical scenario, it's been a war.
Good luck to us all today. The whole world needs a change.
iamevolved
· 1 year ago
Funny story. At least I think so. My wife and I are walking out of the polls and I comment on the "lesser offices" on the ballot. The utilities district, school districts etc. I say that I do not know enough about these folks to make a real informed decision and that I believe candidates will often use these as springboards to higher offices. My wife, who does not follow politics very much at all, says "yeah, I could'nt help thinking I was voting for the next Sarah Palin".
I laughed all the way to work.
curlytoes79
· 1 year ago
I bet they secretly voted for McCain. BRADLEY EFFECT! haha
Milli
· 1 year ago
What Obama has shown us is that we don't hate each other as much as we think or are led to believe. However this day turns out, we've at least learned that.
EmGD
· 1 year ago
I think Barack voted for McCain, Bradley effect and he realizes that he has too little experience. Or, Barack wanted to take a cell phone pic of it and send it to McCain, just to fuck with Mac on the morning of his own crippling electoral victory.
All Comments
Yes we will !
Well.. funny, and sad.
My, oh my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin' our way !
wooo hoooo
Voting today is one of the proudest days of my life.
We are both trying to assuage our anxieties.
We will both be on the computers for the majority of the day on and off keeping up with the latest updates,
Even our 8 year old daughter on her young feminist website will be a close observer.
Am I the only one that thought that SNL was out of line for having McCain on Saturday and then McCain & Palin on Monday??
And Palin flop big time, or was it just me that thought almost no one was laughing. I had heard that Palin wasn't in the studio & it was taped, but still no crowd reaction?
I just hope that you continue posting stuff that matters!
Barack Obama is just one of those rare men of the cosmic hour, as if the cosmos had absolute knowledge of the need and the time of need, I just feel it on the sixth sense level.
How many dreams are being realized on how many levels at this moment across our country and the world?
I'm feeling like such a emotional ole grannie today!
Ms. Dunham’s absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for processing absentee mail ballots… She was alive at that time. Her ballot will be opened tomorrow, and it will be counted in the same way that all absentee voters would be treated under our law.
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/will_marily...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timtimes/3000019255/
Enjoy.
I barely slept, I'm already in tears and I haven't been to the polls yet. I emailed my granddaughter and told her today my vote belonged to her!
I've been so busy over the last eight years yelling, screaming and fighting when there was a fight to fight that I ignored just how emotionally battered we are as a people! I never would have imagined an election being so emotional, only here it is and here we are!
But the Obama dynamic was facinating...Melia replaying a tune in her head as the Senator could be seen hunched over his ballot...That Mrs. Obama took longer to vote than her husband...The warm paternal focus the Senator gave Melia after voting...
This warm, casual potentially First Family stuff or "color" as it's called in the nooz biz, the warm schmaltzy background stuff, went over the inflated heads of early morning cable, sadly.
Go Obama!!!
Feels like X-mas.
Good luck to us all today. The whole world needs a change.
I laughed all the way to work.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/