election 2008 « the quarter century project

hi everyone!

today is election day!! not only are we voting for a brand spanking new president of the united states, we’re also voting for a lot of other things in the state ballots such as proposition 1000 and governor (washington). i hope everyone managed to get their ballots in whether by absentee or a good old fashioned visit to the voting booth.

i’m feeling really excited today because i tend to be on election days. how can you not be? everyone’s casting a ballot to express their opinions, the tv/radio is full of interesting goings on and you watch states turn blue or red throughout the day, polls are going crazy, all the news people are scurrying to analyze faster, better, more. as a quarter century-er, i bet we all remember election 2000 very distinctly. i was 19 at the time (yes, i’m old) and it was the very first presidential election i participated in. i stayed up long into that night, getting angrier and angrier as we watched the electoral votes turn from gore’s camp over to bush’s thanks to the greatest voting debacle this country has ever experienced. election 2004, even fresher in my mind, felt very much the same except we shifted from florida to ohio for dubious and questionable voting results though it wasnt quite as close as 2000.

or am i just feeling a bit too passionate about all this right now? the only good thing that came out of election 2000 and 2004, if you want to be positive today, is the call and action for voting reform. i’m hoping that today we will see the positive results of that. and no huge controversies will erupt that will have me up late into yet another night, fuming and cursing at the television.

please vote today if you haven’t already done so. and please share your experiences, feelings, and any other antecdotes from today or election 2000 or 2004. i am definitely looking forward to hearing from you.

and definitely looking forward to president barack obama taking over (fair and square) the helm at the white house.