*** OFFICIAL "I VOTED" THREAD #1 *** [View All]

I woke up about an hour earlier than usual this morning, perhaps because Daylight Savings Time just ended, but more likely because I was really excited to get out and vote.

I made the short one-block walk to my polling place, and arrived there at 6:30AM, about half an hour before the polls opened. There were already about 20 people in line ahead of me. The guy in front of me was wearing a black hoodie. I'm not kidding. It mighta been a coincidence, but you never know.

So I put Eminem's "Mosh" on repeat on my iPod, and spent the next 30 minutes reading the newspaper. By 7:00AM when the polls opened, the line was at least 50 yards long, reaching all the way out the door of the polling place.

I signed in, got my ballot, and proudly voted for John Kerry and John Edwards! I think I felt a little bit of a chill as I connected the little black arrow with my Number 2 pencil.

Lower down the ballot, on one of the non-partisan races where I didn't know anything about the candidates, I wrote in the name of a friend here in DC, as is custom. He, in turn, will likely write my name in for one of those lower-level races, as is custom.

I walked out of the polling place around 7:10AM, and the line was already stretching for an additional 50 yards outside. Mind you, this is in Washington, DC, where our vote for president hardly matters. No Democrat has ever lost the presidential vote here.

I put my iPod back on and scrolled through my playlist. Selected the Dixie Chicks, which seemed appropriate since they got demonized by rabid Bush supporters a while back. The first song on the album was somethinng I didn't really like so much, so I skipped directly to the next song. I swear to you, this was pure luck. I did not realize which song I was skipping to until it started to play...

Its name: "Landslide" :thumbsup: