I am off to the polls

Not sure I'll be back before midnight. Depends on how long the line is at 7 when they close.



If you missed it yesterday, my Things To Deal With Before You Go to the Polls checklist should at least get a skim before you go vote (if that is something you're doing today).

Have a good, safe one, everyone!

ETA with a few words from Walt Whitman:

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,

'Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,

Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,

Nor Oregon's white cones - nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes - nor Mississippi's stream:

This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name - the still small voice vibrating -America's choosing day...

Sam & Dean Would!

My polling place is ridiculously mellow. We've processed 200+ people in about 3 hours, and a dozen in the last hour, but the lunchtime crowd is starting up, slowly but surely. There's another attorney here with me so I managed to run out and make a Krispy Kreme run for the staffers here and the firefighters whose station we are precinct-ing in.

I also managed to read a fic! A little election day joy from sarah_p (no, I do not believe that she is *that* Sarah P!) in the form of an SPN genfic. Go read it and get all smiley!

To Pennsylvanians & Californians

It might be only in Philly, or it might be broader across the state, but I just pulled this from dailykos:

If you are in Philadelphia, PA and you click the box for Obama, and then click straight Democratic ticket, it will cancel out your vote for Obama. No one is quite sure why, but it's happening . I just talked to the Obama campaign , and they are urging folks either to just vote straight Democratic ticket , or to choose each candidate individually- but not both.

And from Sera Gamble, a little note about voting NO on 8 if you're in California - she wrote a bit about one of her best friends:

Michael, however, has been with his Sig Other for going on nine years.

I know. Who the fuck stays with one guy for nine years? In Los Angeles? They're a shining beacon of hope to us all.

You see where I'm going with this. Michael may or may not decide to pop the question. (If I were his bf, I'd be getting pre-tty antsy, but that's another post.) As of the writing of this missive, they can go ahead and do the crazy deed here in California, if they so please. Just like the rest of us. If you go to the polls and vote NO ON 8, it is my hope that the misguided souls attempting to add discrimination against my family to our state Constitution will fail.

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My polling station this morning.

( Just before dawn. )

If you have children, take them to the polls with you. Remind them that for most of human history, people had no say in who would lead them, that violence and fear determined who controlled the institutions of power. Tell them that even in our own country, founded on the most noble of democratic principles, people have had to labor and protest and fight and even die to secure this right for themselves and for others. Tell them that there are many things you can do to exercise your citizenship, but this is one thing you must do. Tell them that election day is when you act not for yourself but for your community and your country. Tell them that although campaigns can be small and mean, election day is when our nation can also be bound by hope.

Paul Waldman, The Prospect

Obama took Ohio.

It's over.
He's going to be our president.

OUR PRESIDENT.

And I have a new icon in his honor!!!!!!!!!!!!! (But I don't know who made it! Does anyone know?)

ETA: AND HE WON NEW MEXICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Florida? Where are you Florida?

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Oh my God.

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I was listening to MSNBC so I heard KEITH say it.

Please don't let me short out my keyboard with the crying.

ETA

Florida. Fucking FINALLY.

I live in a BLUE state!!!!!!!!!!