“Aww First Timer”

No, no dear I’m not a first timer.  I voted once for president by absentee ballot, this is my first presidential election voting in a voting booth.  I’m just having trouble with the stupid curtain, thank you very much.

It’s some surprise that we haven’t all upgraded to newer, sleeker voting machines.  Instead, we here in my hometown are stuck with voting machines Noah must have used to punch his ballot.  Seriously…it’s kind of silly.  But otherwise, I had a mercifully short voting experience.  The line was oh…five minutes.  Thank goodness for multiple polling locations in one town, and even funnier that we’re a pretty small town.  I think I may have killed myself otherwise.

The other source of amusement: how a lot of people were looking at me like “holy crap, it’s one of them young, non-white ones!”  The rest of the people voting (at least when I went) probably were an average age of 50…plus or minus ten years.  All were white, except one guy signing in voters and one woman who I think was a voting official.  Welcome to my world.

I’m surprised at how Republican my little corner of New York is.  New York, though, always goes blue and the same will be the case today.  So I’m not too worried.  It’s just the rest of the country I’m worried about.  While I feel bad pushing my views on other people, I think here it’s ok to be a little pushy.  All you people who live in Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Florida, and Pennsylvania…PLEASE VOTE FOR OBAMA.  Ultimately the choice is yours, I’m just helping you make that choice. 

Let’s hope for change today, change for the better, a change for a brighter future.

For now, I want to go to one of those election parties!  To quote from my brother “today feels like Christmas!”  I swear he meant it jokingly.