I know I’m an old softie, but most of the things I’m seeing today are making me cry. The faces of the people in the video of Springsteen & Obama at the Cleveland rally the other night, for instance. Oh! And you MUST watch this from Manassas, VA last night! And then there’s the anecdote below, sent in to Andrew Sullivan by a reader in Dartmouth, NH:
Those who are wondering if the youth will turn out ought to see what I saw this morning.
One well-known government professor here told me that she has never seen so many students vote in the first hour of voting as she saw this morning. And I’ve never seen so many students up and alert at this hour. They’re normally stumbling out of bed to make it to their 10 a.m. courses. Today, the campus has been buzzing for hours this morning. It appears that many of them decided to go to the polls as groups of twos, threes, fours and more when the polls opened at 7 a.m. The number of students I saw by 8 a.m. walking around with “I voted” stickers on is astonishing.
At breakfast, I sat next to a table of four black students, all of whom had voted. The three men were wearing ties. I asked them why. The answer: It was their first election, and they wanted to mark the occasion.[my emphasis - JHF]
This is the first time in my life I’ve ever felt bad for not doing more on election day. Maybe I’ll go down to the local Obama headquarters and at least see what’s going on, get some pictures to show what’s happening here in Taos. No other obligations today for me, this is it!
Glory, glory hallelujah…
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