Voting Is Super Cool!

My eyes get misty every time I slide my ballot into the ballot box. I think I haven't missed a general election since I was eligible to vote for the first time 20 years ago. In the intervening years my political identity has changed. In my first election I voted for "Bush the Father." Yesterday I was thrilled to see "Bush the Son" ushered out of office by a man who will hopefully be the agent of change he proclaims to be.

Yesterday I took my daughter with me to the poll to turn in my and my husband's absentee ballots. Our state is planning to go all absentee for the next election and I wanted to her to see the traditional polling place before it is gone from our region. She was thrilled to drop our ballots in the box and wore her "I Voted" sticker proudly to school.

Voter turn-out seems to indicate that for this historical election, many people agreed that voting is cool. I sincerely hope that people continue to exercise their right/responsibility to vote when the most interesting things on the ballot are transportation funding and county judges.

Didn't mean to wax philosophic. Just wanted to say voting is super cool!