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I hate to flood the board with election only threads when it could probably be consolidated but I am just curious as to where everyone was when the polls werecoming in, how they were celebrating, etc.
I had class early in the morning which I opted to not skip out on since I missed a lot of school for my knee surgery and figured by voting later in the day Iwould not have to wait in line as long. Ran some errands, ate lunch, picked my roommate up and headed from Baltimore to PG County.
Voted at Duval high school. There was only one visible McCain supporter (who wasn't allowed to vote because she showed up to the wrong poll place like amoron and tried to argue her way onto a computer) and I was only in line for about 15 minutes. The poll workers said earlier that morning, it had been a threehour wait. The most striking thing about the crowd of people here was the age difference between now and the 2004 election. Whereas in 2004 I was easily theyoungest in the polling place, the room was split like 60/40 between young adults and old people. That is when I think it sunk in for me that things REALLYwere different. Like REALLY really. Took pleasure in kicking over a McCain yard sign on my way to my car.
After that I played phone tag with a sea of people for an hour or two trying to find a ticket to see Bad Brains. Got ahold of one from some random guy Ididn't know and showed up to 9:30 club 10 minutes before they played. Bad Brains played the same set I have seen them play before. All the good stuff offRock For Light and I Against I, some songs from the new album and Soulcraft and some others. They played terribly sloppy and HR kept singing the wrong songsand wrong verses at the wrong times. The crowd was a bunch of pop music nerds. Hardcore kids went wild anyways.
Walked straight form 9:30 to Ben's Chili Bowl because we were hungry and figured it was appropriate. People were already wandering the streets cheering andscreaming. After we got out food, the polls really started rolling in. CNN was being shown on a projection screen. This is about when Pennsylvania and Ohio andothers started coming in. I started getting texts from my friends that worked on the campaign "Hail to the chief" and "He did it. He actuallypulled it off." About five minutes later they called it and everyone went ape #%@*. I dropped my veggie chili veggie burger and stood up and threw myhands up and screamed.
We wandered around U Street for awhile, people were literally dancing in the middle of the street. We considered going to a few places but they were madcrowded.. bus boys and poets and tavern and stuff and I don't really like yuppie #%@* like that. But it was the first time in 8 years I have seen people inthe city happy. Walking down the streets smiling and laughing. I saw strangers running up and hugging each other. I saw strangers literally start dancing witheach other on the corners. Everyone was chanting. It was so surreal.
I headed back home to Baltimore and heard he had Virginia on the radio. Myself and my roommate's girlfriend started hugging each other and I almost crashedmy car. Got home, grabbed my board and skated to the Ottobar because some of my friends were there and they were supposedly having an election party. WatchedObama's speech on the projection screen with a cheering crowd and honestly cried. Did a lot of thinking about how hard and dismissive I am of people. Ilost so much faith in Americans after the 2004 election and it convinced me that humans, especially in our country as a whole are bad people. This was thefirst night I thought well MAYBE not everyone is so bad. Did a lot of thinking. Called my Mother and told her I loved her, and I can't believe I was aliveto witness this, and in DC of all places. She gets upset when I am cynical and hateful of people/society/humanity/whatever and told her about what I justtyped. It made her happy. I talked to her for a bit longer, told her I loved her again and went back in the bar. Danced and got handed free cokes and shirleytemples until the end of the night. A bunch of girls came over and we screamed and celebrated and stuff more.
The only thing I will miss, is kicking the side mirrors off cars with McCain stickers on them. But Im sure in four years there will still be someone equally asdouchey. Here are some boobs I grabbed in Obama celebration.
I am legitimately interested to read what everyone did and where everyone was when everything was going down. Post pictures and stories.
I had class early in the morning which I opted to not skip out on since I missed a lot of school for my knee surgery and figured by voting later in the day Iwould not have to wait in line as long. Ran some errands, ate lunch, picked my roommate up and headed from Baltimore to PG County.
Voted at Duval high school. There was only one visible McCain supporter (who wasn't allowed to vote because she showed up to the wrong poll place like amoron and tried to argue her way onto a computer) and I was only in line for about 15 minutes. The poll workers said earlier that morning, it had been a threehour wait. The most striking thing about the crowd of people here was the age difference between now and the 2004 election. Whereas in 2004 I was easily theyoungest in the polling place, the room was split like 60/40 between young adults and old people. That is when I think it sunk in for me that things REALLYwere different. Like REALLY really. Took pleasure in kicking over a McCain yard sign on my way to my car.
After that I played phone tag with a sea of people for an hour or two trying to find a ticket to see Bad Brains. Got ahold of one from some random guy Ididn't know and showed up to 9:30 club 10 minutes before they played. Bad Brains played the same set I have seen them play before. All the good stuff offRock For Light and I Against I, some songs from the new album and Soulcraft and some others. They played terribly sloppy and HR kept singing the wrong songsand wrong verses at the wrong times. The crowd was a bunch of pop music nerds. Hardcore kids went wild anyways.
Walked straight form 9:30 to Ben's Chili Bowl because we were hungry and figured it was appropriate. People were already wandering the streets cheering andscreaming. After we got out food, the polls really started rolling in. CNN was being shown on a projection screen. This is about when Pennsylvania and Ohio andothers started coming in. I started getting texts from my friends that worked on the campaign "Hail to the chief" and "He did it. He actuallypulled it off." About five minutes later they called it and everyone went ape #%@*. I dropped my veggie chili veggie burger and stood up and threw myhands up and screamed.
We wandered around U Street for awhile, people were literally dancing in the middle of the street. We considered going to a few places but they were madcrowded.. bus boys and poets and tavern and stuff and I don't really like yuppie #%@* like that. But it was the first time in 8 years I have seen people inthe city happy. Walking down the streets smiling and laughing. I saw strangers running up and hugging each other. I saw strangers literally start dancing witheach other on the corners. Everyone was chanting. It was so surreal.
I headed back home to Baltimore and heard he had Virginia on the radio. Myself and my roommate's girlfriend started hugging each other and I almost crashedmy car. Got home, grabbed my board and skated to the Ottobar because some of my friends were there and they were supposedly having an election party. WatchedObama's speech on the projection screen with a cheering crowd and honestly cried. Did a lot of thinking about how hard and dismissive I am of people. Ilost so much faith in Americans after the 2004 election and it convinced me that humans, especially in our country as a whole are bad people. This was thefirst night I thought well MAYBE not everyone is so bad. Did a lot of thinking. Called my Mother and told her I loved her, and I can't believe I was aliveto witness this, and in DC of all places. She gets upset when I am cynical and hateful of people/society/humanity/whatever and told her about what I justtyped. It made her happy. I talked to her for a bit longer, told her I loved her again and went back in the bar. Danced and got handed free cokes and shirleytemples until the end of the night. A bunch of girls came over and we screamed and celebrated and stuff more.
The only thing I will miss, is kicking the side mirrors off cars with McCain stickers on them. But Im sure in four years there will still be someone equally asdouchey. Here are some boobs I grabbed in Obama celebration.
I am legitimately interested to read what everyone did and where everyone was when everything was going down. Post pictures and stories.
