Tuesday, November 4, 2008
As the election got closer and closer, we thought often about our friend Peachy (Carley's best friend from college and Rowan's godmomma), who has spent the past year working on Barack Obama's presidential campaign. When we last saw her in early January, she was running a regional campaign office in Greenville, South Carolina. However, since the summer, she's been in St. Louis serving as Obama's state field director for her home-state of Missouri.
Carley and her dad heeded the call for "all hands on deck" on election day, and they made the 6-hour drive to St. Louis on Monday afternoon. Rob stayed home with Rowan and anxiously watched the news until that glorious moment at 10pm CST on Tuesday evening.
This guy, Sam, was from Australia and had been in the U.S. for three months volunteering for the Obama campaign. I guess the rest of the world was fed up with us making poor decisions!
Carley and her dad were at their staging location by 5:00am and at the polls by 5:30. This is the line at 5:30 in the morning that wrapped around the building and down the block.
Carley talks to a voter about his rights.
Our polling place was a high school. The students above couldn't vote but they made their opinions known.
The lady above doing curbside voting was 100 years old. This was probably the biggest tearjerker of Carley's day. Just think, she couldn't even vote until she was nearly 60, and she got to vote for a black man - and he WON!!!
Carley and Rob shared happy tears over the phone later that night when the results came in. We are so excited that the majority of our compatriots recognized a great leader in Barack Obama, and we are ready to work for change over the next 4 (and hopefully 8) years!! YES WE DID!!!!
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