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This is just a reminder for all y’all. I’m sure that no one is aware of this, but we all get to vote today! So, go on out there and do your part, beauties.
Comments are open on this thing for help in finding polling locations and other logistical information. Your partisan bickering and across-the-aisle chicken-choking are wonderful, but let’s try to inform as we entertain.
xo,
N.
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OK ALREADY!!!!
Gaddam! I wish you people would stop pestering me.
I was going to blow it off. But I got nothing better to do.
i woke up at 6:15….so
i woke up at 6:15….so excited…can’t sleep!
i already voted though….
Good morning!
My goodness, that’s a large VOTE. Sure, but first I have to get out of work. I will tell you the sneaky plan I read in the newspaper - go after 9 a.m. (when the working class already went to work) but before 11 a.m., when the working class tries to vote on their lunch hour, or after 1 p.m. (when I get out of work) but before 4 p.m., when the working class gets out of work. Brilliant!
Okay, I guess I have to go to work, first.
I voted.
done and done!
We got up early and were in line by about 6:45, and were still numbers 71 and 72 in our precinct. Which is awesome. It is really cool to get to vote in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in this particular election. It’s a huge day, and everybody knows it, exuding confidence, calm, glee, and solemnity all at the same time. Little old ladies about to BUST! Young guys looking kind of stunned that it’s actually come this far, and making sure they do their part. It’s really, really nice. So often our precint has such LOW voter turnout….nice work, all you fine grassroots organizers and canvassers out there and in here that worked so hard to Barack to vote!!
We were out of the bingo hall by 8:10 am. There were some problems with the scanner.
1 hour, 15 minutes
Long line, determined people. Edison.
There was a thuggish looking goon looking like the stereotype of a Republican. Glowering up and down the line. Had a tag that read “Challenger.” Muffugga not getting in my way.
best early alarm ever!
Cho walked down to the school to see if there was a line outside the door around 7:45 a.m. No line outside. If there had been a huge line, I was planning on waiting and using Liz’s sneaky plan, but I was so fucking excited that I think I would have ran down there to stand in line as soon as I had my wits about me enough to get my shoes tied. I made H go with me and literally watch me vote for Barack Obama, the next President of the United States, and the first African-American POTUS! He didn’t care, of course, but I was excited enough for 10 people. I was in and out of there as if this was a dinky local-only election. But an hour after polls opened, I was # 93.
YaY!!!!
I do'd it!
I do’d it! Took about 45 minutes. Most of that time was spent standing in a line outside. Beautiful day, huh?
ich bin ein voter-er
Took me an hour. At 9:45 when I got my ballot, the official said that there had been more voters already today at my precinct than they had gotten all day in previous years. Methinks that is good.
That One did it, too.
awesome exchange
Co-worker who has never breathed a political word in my presence getting a pop out of the machine at lunch: "I’m getting a Coke today. Hell with it! I’m celebrating!"
Me: "Whatcha celebrating?"
He looks around cautiously and whispers to me: "Getting those ASSHOLES out of washington!"
Then we high fived each other and scuttled back to our cubes.
ain't over till it's over...
I’m still holding my breath. I know Obama is most likely going to win, but my fear is that the South will rise again and 400 thousand gibbering goons in carharts and overalls carrying pitchforks and torches will ravage my quiet neighborhood tonight as they drag a flatbed trailer with ted nugent playing some racist anthem at full blast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0
someone please wake me!
I know, I know.....
…there’s a dark, cynical corner of my brain that can’t help replaying over and over and over the last election, which found me weeping quietly while laying face down on the floor in the earliest hours of the dawn of November 5, numbed with disbelief.
Dusty assures me that this will be such a landslide that no dirty tricks can be enacted, but…….I’ll believe it when it happens. Every fiber of my being wants it, but I won’t believe it’s really true until it happens.
I have steeled my reserve
I have steeled my reserve for this night with many beers and my loved ones and if that doesn’t work I’ll resort to hateful music, watch Idiocracy and 40’s of Steel Reserve.
Ooooooh, that cracker clip up there had me wanting my monster vehicle to be a Caprice Classic and to run over and crush their Hummers while I blast Public Enemy and Geto Boys into their fucking minds. Unmerciful.
HIOLLER LOO WHY YAY!!!!
oh noes they did not those hussayin democrats!!1!
That did NOT just happen! Wake me in 2.5 years and convince me.
No, seriously, did that just happen? Whaa?
I can haz happy?
YOU CAN HAS HAPPY!
god bless sarah!!
McCain was CLASSY in his concession speech; he did a great, and even "honorable" job. but did anyone notice that when the crowd started booing Obama, that Sarah was cracking a tiny smile? she thrives on that stuff! let’s hope she’s completely forgotten by ‘12.
Ooooh, she's so creepy!
Yep, McCain reminded me of the McCain that I actually used to kind of respect, before he rolled over and became a tool for the Cheney-ans. Palin, though? That creepy little toad can return to whatever rock she crawled out from!
The best day.
Giving you all a big virtual hug, feeling just sooo happy, optimistic, relieved, excited, hopeful. It just feels so great.
I, too, feel relieved. However...
…there’s so much to be done. And I’m glad Obama acknwoledged as much: no stupid celebration theme song or celebrity band or ostentatious fireworks or anything like that, just him telling us things are in bad shape and we need to get to work, then a couple brief photo ops. This really is the time when the hard work begins in this country. Folks can’t go back to sleep because they got their superman elected. We need to push these POLITICIANS to do the right things and prevent them from simply working for big business. But at least we have some folks in there who can be reasoned with (it seems).
new age
Yes we did.
I was babbling about it last night — it was like New Years Eve and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
McCain did sound classy in
McCain did sound classy in his concession speech at the bar last night. It were hushed and people were absorbing it instead of foosball or whatnot. I couldn’t help my drunk self and yelled things like "McCain is a Mewslimm!" which was met with mostly chuckles but a few scowls :) and something about Palin needing to use her Sportscaster skills to announce hockey games, hopefully middle school.
It was fucking 11pm when CNN had called it. I kept having flashbacks to 2000 and 2004 when that shit was close.
After getting home and crying during the Obama speech I turned the TV to Fox News and watched other grown men make excuses and almost cry for the sadness that a known Terrorist and A-Wrab is leading the free world. I’m petty but Brit Hume’s face last night made me feel a little bit better for the last 8 years.
Looks like medical marijuana passed in MI too. If marijana was decriminalized on a national level and taxed, cash crop brah, I think our country and states could find a way to make some more $$.
Bump!
Can’t embed this. You’ll just have to go look.
Let me offer all of you my
Let me offer all of you my sincerest congraulations, I know a lot of yall here worked hard on this.
GAH!
Is there a single one of you that’s able to concentrate on anything but mafuggin’ sunshine and kittens being crammed into your know hole? I can’t bring myself to shelve a goddamn book, and that’s all my job IS. Today has to be Leppo Friday. I need more jumping up and down and hugging and hollering and crying and spilling drinks down Liz’s back! (Won’t happen again for another four years, Liz, promise.)
concen-whaaaaa?
I’ve been forced to concentrate for part of the day, but more of it has been spent realizing that I’ve been staring into space with a blissed-out smile on my mug that won’t wipe off….
now the work begins
One of the stranger aspects of my work day has been how… normal it seems to have been. I worked a desk first thing this morning, and just went right on helping people find what they needed, whether it was Dostoyevsky on audio or videos on independent living arrangements for people with disabilities… getting the guy on the station so he could listen to one of our Al Green CDs for the 38th week in a row… getting tutors into the study rooms to meet their students, etc. Life’s going on as usual, though part of it is not. Maybe people are still just too stunned.
Yesterday felt great. I dodged the jury duty bullet that I was scheduled to bite, so went into work a little later, which meant I could vote in that 9-11 slot. Walked down Maple with a great sense of purpose, ran into some of our forum friends at the polls (a couple of them with the kids in tow), got in and out in 10 minutes, walked to work and wore my "I voted" sticker all day long. Was pleased to find out that CG took Kap’n Jr to the polls after work, making yesterday a real family event. There was slight dread as I watched the earliest poll results come in, but it all turned out fine. If only I could have been in Grant Park last night! Chicago hasn’t been so busy and illuminated since the Columbian Expo… 8 years before the start of the last century… now, another amazing moment 8 years after the end of that last century.
I wept when Obama told his girls they earned that puppy they’d get to take to the White House. That’s a great dad.
So focused, too. The work is at hand, and Obama isn’t going to let us forget that. I hope he can stay on task, and keep those with whom he’ll govern on task too. I think he’s the right guy for the job.
President 44 - inauguration date one week before my 44th birthday… it’s all so very cosmic.
Ok, Dingey, It's Done.
Holy crap, for the first time in my adult life, I’ve done this:
You Godless commie community-organizing household!
Now THAT’S commitment. This means that now I can wear my stars-n-bars Chucks when I’m not canvassing. But really, a flag?! I had never even given it a moment’s thought. Until now. What goes on, people? I still feel like Ed Harris is up there in the ceiling controlling my life! Perfect gorgeous weather in November, almost-affordable petrol, That One not only wins it but does it without hitch … Ha! Everything’s happy! I have the attention span of a hamster!
I SALUTE YOU!!!!!
BA-ROCKIT!
Larry Flynt called
He wants his underwear back.
When?
Depends.
Thank you
Thank you for making me choke on a vitamin that was halfway down my gullet when I read that.
Kap’n my Kap’n!
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