Mural, Haight Street, San Francisco. Photo by Julie Michelle.
Reasons I support Sen. Barack Obama for president.
Make your vote count
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Bruce Springsteen performs for Sen. Obama and his family and supporters in Ohio.
It is hoped it's a harbinger of races to come: Sen. Obama has won the tiny hamlet of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire 15-6. It's the first time since 1968 the community has voted for a Democrat.
Even as we vote for change, the Bush administration continues wreaking havoc with our democracy. Let's make history today and take back our country. YES WE CAN!
Scroll down the page for the latest report of voting issues around the country, updated throughout the day.
This is the perfect day to come to this blog and see such enthusiasm and hope! I'm glad to be part of the moment with you all. And thank you for sharing my photo. I'm so proud to see it here.
Posted by: tangobaby | 04 November 2008 at 20:04
I am so happy today is finally here! I hope that everyone will get out and vote and that we'll have great things to celebrate tonight.....change we can believe in!!!!!!
Posted by: Suzanne | 04 November 2008 at 19:13
I can't wait to vote today--- I feel like it is Christmas, GO OBAMA!
Posted by: diane | 04 November 2008 at 19:03
Cross your fingers....
Posted by: Joyce Ellen Davis | 04 November 2008 at 18:35
It seems so strange that a small town like Lynchburg, Virginia, should have problems. I hope all can be resolved and everybody vote on time.
Did you know that in Austria more than 90% of eligible voters cast their vote during elections? I remember reading about "low voter turnout", while it was actually in the high eighties! I can't wait to find out how high voter turnout is going to be today in the USA.
Posted by: Merisi's | 04 November 2008 at 16:54
Tara,
Well the day you've been prepping us for is finally here. I can't wait until all the votes are tabulated. It is so exciting.
I'm glued to the T.V.
There seems to be only minor problems so far.
Let's hope all goes well and problems with voting kept to a minimum.
I wish Obama the best of luck to win this by a landslide. Then I wish him all the strength he'll need over the next four years to try to undo all the damage that the Bush administration has caused.
Go-Obama!!
xoxo
Posted by: gillian at indigo blue | 04 November 2008 at 16:15
I could not go through the day and not visit for a moment.
I was up early this morning, hobbled over to the polls with my surgically improved knee and cast my, OH SO VERY IMPORTANT VOTE BECAUSE I LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!!!
GO OBAMA!!!! GO PENNSYLVANIA. Please don't let me regret that I was born in this state.
Posted by: karen cole | 04 November 2008 at 15:57
Today is the day, let's get out here and make a change! Vote for hope! ; )
Posted by: Christina | 04 November 2008 at 15:10
I watched that bit about Dixville Notch at 12:15am on CNN last night. I screamed so loud-I woke Chris up who was sleeping soundly in the next room!!
If that, coupled with the sign that his grandmother, who knew in her heart he would be the next President, left this earth one day before the election, isn't a sign of hope- I don't know what is!!!
I think we are off to a great start!!!
Get out and vote!!!
Let's Do This!!!!
Posted by: My Mélange | 04 November 2008 at 13:49