I saw it yesterday, on a roadside in Florida: a makeshift table, loaded with homegrown plants. How could I resist? No one was home, so I left my payment on the doorstep and drove off with several leafy backseat passengers. They weren’t much for conversation, but they patiently waited in the car while I knocked on doors all afternoon, volunteering to help get out the vote in a battleground state for Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change.
I’m home tonight, working in the studio. I’ll cross the state line again tomorrow, to help out on election day. Last week I voted absentee, and it was my good fortune to be in that three-hour-long line behind a softspoken 89-year-old African American woman. She spent the long wait in happy anticipation of the moment she would fill in that little oval next to Sen. Obama’s name on her ballot.
“I never thought I would see this happen in my lifetime,” she said.
It’s been a long, long campaign and all signs point to long, long lines at polling places. Take a book, take some music, take a beverage — but take the time to vote. Please. It’s never been more important.
The lovely and creative Casa de Charlotte della Luna has provided a list of Election Day Survival Resources. Helpful tips for that elusive creature, the undecided voter, can be found at The Daily Green.
Need some motivation? Want to smile? Watch this.
Now… go vote!
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What plants did you get for 50 cents? What a deal! Way to go, getting out the vote. There’s no way our polling place will take three hours but I’ll bring a book just in case. 🙂 I love voting in person, have resisted the absentee thing because being there with other voters, even in low turn-out elections, makes me somehow feel more part of it all. But you are in contact with a lot more voters, doing what you’re doing. Fingers crossed for a good outcome tomorrow!
Although I live far from you, I know that whatever happens toay will affect my life as well. i do hope Obama wins this election, it would be a total nonsense if his oponent won it! Good luck, and give your cute baby plants a lot of love!
Kisses from Nydia.
We had early voting here in North Carolina. We went out and voted on Oct 20th, then went to the James Taylor concert in support for Obama.
Red, White and…Blue Sky!
Cameron
it’s awesome that there has been this “problem” of long lines all over… people taking a greater interest in public issues is always a good thing
Thanks for the linky-luv!
WE DID IT!! (and I’m so proud of NC, Cameron!)
I was amazed at the long lines–happy for them because it meant people were passionate about this election, and yet, glad I did not have to wait to cast my vote. I am lucky enough to have the polling place next door to my home, and I was in and out in a minute. Now that Obama has won, there is an upbeat feeling in this area, definitely palpable. I hope the entire country, regardless of political persuasion, can be taken along for the ride.