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15 Responses to “Super Tuesday”

1. 1 aly hawkins
   5 February 2008 at 7:42 pm

   I love voting. Even tho intellectually I know that my vote doesn’t really count, I feel like it matters. And I love the little sticker they give you, just like kindergarten.

2. 2 Gretchen
   5 February 2008 at 7:53 pm

   Sophia liked her sticker too. ;) “What’s voting, Daddy?” was our loaded question of the night.

3. 3 Sharolyn
   5 February 2008 at 7:53 pm

   Funny story: Although I knew how I wanted to vote, I forgot to look for my polling location. After looking online between classes, it turns out my polling place was about 100 paces from my classroom, in the multi-purpose room. It was kind of weird to vote at the exact latitude and longitude where I direct Broadway Junior musicals. And smelling tator tots.

   Is anyone else’s polling place lax? They never check my ID.

   Aly, how come you feel like your vote doesn’t really count? (I’m thinking Florida, 2000… but I guess that could go either way, about votes counting.)

4. 4 aly hawkins
   5 February 2008 at 10:28 pm

   Sharolyn: A vote for Barack Obama in California, on paper, looks more like a vote against Hillary Clinton and the Dem establishment than an informed choice that will turn the tide. I wish our primary was later in the season — given a little more time, I think Barack could have given Hil a run for her money even here. (I still believe he’ll pull it out in the primaries and caucuses left in the schedule, but it would’ve been nice to send him to Denver with a few more CA delegates in his corner.)

5. 5 Daniel Semsen
   5 February 2008 at 10:34 pm

   I voted. And evidently, so did Nathaniel…don’t ask me why or how, but he told me he did.

   He voted for Obama…

6. 6 michael lee
   6 February 2008 at 8:30 am

   Yes, daddy explaining to Sophia what “voting” is was the highlight of the day. It involved a lot of saying things that I will have to clarify and correct later on.

   They didn’t check our ID either - in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked for identification of any kind when voting. Hmmmm. Come November, I’m gonna hit up 20 or 30 polling places and make my vote REALLY count!

   One thing that kind of bugs me - they have separate booths for Republican, Democrat, and Independent. When you go up to the registrar, they call out your party affiliation, very loudly, and send you to the appropriate booth. It felt a little awkward, especially since the 10 people ahead of us were all of a different party affiliation.

   I could almost feel everyone looking at us and thinking, “Young, white, married couple, voting together after work, two blond and blue-eyed kids, so that’s what Republicans look like.” I know I’m making unfair projections, but still. It was uncomfortable.

7. 7 JC
   6 February 2008 at 10:08 am

   Now that I am unencumbered by the corporate grind, I decided to jump into the world of politics with both feet. I was “elected” (I volunteered, gave a passionate speech and won the vote in a landslide…after the guy I was running against put his foot in his mouth several times during his speech) to be the co-Chair for the next Republican caucus here in my little Colorado precinct. I also will be going to all of the assembly/convention things (don’t know the lingo yet) at the local level. If I pop up as Governor of Colorado in a few years, don’t be surprised!

8. 8 Stick
   6 February 2008 at 10:47 am

   Yeah, no ID here either. Of course, I was number 97 for my little precinct, and I didn’t got until 1 pm.

   No segregagted booths at mine. Though, I think they put up 8 or something. I can’t imagine there were ever more than 2 or 3 in a once. Heh heh.

9. 9 michael lee
   6 February 2008 at 11:31 am

   JC, did you end up in Boulder or Colorado Springs? Just want to know if I should send a congratulatory gift basket of cookies, or body armor.

10. 10 Sharolyn
    6 February 2008 at 1:25 pm

    You go, JC!

    And Aly, now I’m thinking about all that you said…

    Mike and Gretchen, voting was quite a discussion here, too. My daughter kept calling it an “I love you” sticker, because of course, they both start with “I”.

    The first president I remember was Carter. Then Regan became president, and I was totally confused. As a kid, I thought there was something about Jimmy Carter specifically that made him the president.

    How amazing to me that our kids might know a man of color or a woman as their first president. Those qualities alone aren’t enough to cause me to vote for them, I’m “just saying”. I felt totally empowered in middle school when we could have possibly had a woman vice-president, and now my daughter could know a woman president. The world will be presented to her a little differently than it was to me. What’s next - women in leadership roles in ministry?! (j/k)

11. 11 June
    6 February 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Upon spying Brian’s “I voted” sticker, our seven-year-old asked Brian if “the guys actually run a race or what?!” I think that, for a brief moment, he was considering politics as a vocational option if it including running as fast as you can, trying to beat someone else who is also running. He was a little bummed to learn that “running” means something else when it comes to politics. I think “kinda weird” was his commentary. Indeed.

12. 12 Daniel Semsen
    7 February 2008 at 9:43 am

    My 6 year old came home from school very attached to Obama…and was very offended that I didn’t vote for him. (He didn’t quite get the concept of a primary, and me being registered a republican). He also said that no one should vote for McCain because he was “so old” and old people lose their memory.

13. 13 michael lee
    7 February 2008 at 10:31 am

    What school are you sending him to?

14. 14 corey
    7 February 2008 at 3:49 pm

    I didn’t vote. Not because I’m anti-vote or anything- but Mom always said, “if you wanna be a REAL patriot, you’ll put on this here camo jacket and stand with your militia brothers, aiming guns at the sky. Cuz, you know, the Commies are coming any day now. Or aliens.”

15. 15 JC
    8 February 2008 at 7:33 am

    Michael: Much “closer” to The Springs (as we say here in CO).