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I voted!

I went down to the polling place & filled out the little ovals in my ballot...I saved the presidential column for last, & I was grinning like a maniac while I filled out that oval very slowly & carefully, to make sure it reads.

I am not going to be able to concentrate on anything all day--Obama Obama Obama!

ETA @ 4:25-- I know I've been saying I hope Obama wins, but this isn't quite the right kind of hope that we need after the election. Dylan says it far, far better than I ever could. So read this--it's amazing.

Yes we can--yes we did--yes we can!

Ladies & Gentlemen: President-Elect Barack Obama.



Tonight, yes I am proud of my country! I am thrilled for what happened tonight & what it means for what can--& will, I believe--happen in the future. & I am so happy--so, so happy!

Obama is speaking now--listening to him be so grounded, so confident & articulate. Maybe people have blind belief in him, but he knows it won't be easy. And he isn't hiding that. This is hope with an edge, but he knows how to rally us--I love that there is a call & response of yes we can! continuing through this! & oh, man, does he rock.


(Photo from NPR)