My First Presidential Vote

I just got back from my first expierience voting for President.  It wasn’t exactly what I had expected, I had to go home in Mass to vote because of communication issues with my absentee ballot.  There were no, and I mean no, people outside holding signs. 

I have spent years covering this election, and here it is, the day we have all waited for.  If you have not voted yet, please get out and vote.  This is a historic election, and you have the oppurtunity to get involved.

I didn’t have to wait in a long line, maybe five minutes to vote.  I asked my mother how long she waited and she told me she had walked right in.  My father went early this morning, and he said there was a line.  I expected that for such a “historic” election, I would run into more people.  For the record, I live in a big city south of Boston. 

Polls are showing good things for the Obama campaign.  I personally am excited for the ticker on all the major news stations to start moving.  I love watching and seeing results as they come in.

I enjoyed hearing voting stories, last minute campaign ads and radio disk jockeys all trying to get people to go out today.  This truly is like a holiday, people seem amped up.

In closing, I tell you people of New Hampshire.  You are great, so much more involved in politics than the people of Mass.  No wonder you were the First in the Nation!

Until later,

Derek Gorman