I know this is really late, but I couldn't help but share my fabulous experience on election night.
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First off, I'm from Florida. And I was really scared that this election would be boiled down to Florida--JUST b/c of our crazy past of us not counting properly, losing ballots..and so forth.
In the beginning..I was REALLY scared. McCain was pulling ahead or already ahead in VA..KY was looking solid for McCain. Of course I knew KY was a Ruby red state, but it was just too much to swallow at the beginning..seeing Obama start off bad. And Obama was ahead in all the pre-elction polls for VA!!
Then KY was called for McCain..and VT for Obama. I was not happy. Obama only got THREE and McCain..I think EIGHT. McCain is AHEAD!! WHHHHAATTT?? i thought.
I started flipping between CNN and MSNBC and going ONLINE to huffingtonpost. It was crazy..i just couldn't get enough INFORMATION.
I don't know if I missed a couple states in between..b/c i got distracted with other things..--but then I saw Obama won PA! I was sooooo HAPPY!
Now , I thought--I HOPE he gets OHIO..b/c god forbid if its boiled to the FL!! But unfortunately, I didn't trust Ohio either. After watching the primary..it seemed like Ohio had a detest for Obama (sorry if I offend any ohio residents!)..or maybe some racial tension against Obama. Plenty of videos were made in Ohio during the primary,..and a lot of ppl I phoned banked gave me that impression.
THEN OBAMA WON OHIO!! I thought..WOOOOT..its OVER..Obama won.
And to cut a long election short..OBAMA WON!!
And what makes me even MORE HAPPY is that MY STATE--FLORIDA--went blue and helped Obama. I was ELATED. my state helped make him president. but what I even more PROUD of is how CLOSE obama was in all those states that went red. I know some obama supporters whose state went red felt dissappointed about it..BUT wow..u guys really made HHHHHHHHHHHUUUUGGGEE progress in those states!
Anywho people. Aroung 11:15 my friends scooped me up in a window painted OBAMA car. The windows read: "OBAMA!! History is Made" We road around Florida screaming OBAMA!!! We heard BEEPS at our car ALL THROUGH the streets--making commotion at almost every stop light with Cars screaming and beeping there horns. But it wasn't hype enough for us!
We road thru Miami, dade county in a predominantly black neighborhood. We were sure that this neighborhood (my hometown) would be awake and alive! Sure enough we drove down roads and saw people on EVERY block. We screamed "OBAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAA!" ..and WOAh..we heard echoes through out the neighborhood. screams! YELPS of JOY.
it was so great that when my friends and I stopped at a stoplight..we turned up the music--GOT out the car And started dancing to an OBAMA song. It was so Hype that the people on the block started dancing. Other people got out there cars...Horns were TOOTING all over the neighborhood!!
Well..we couldn't miss Obama's speech..so we drove back home to hear it! It was awesome! My friends and me felt so proud to be an American. So proud we didn't let down the world who overwhelmingly wanted obama...we were so damn proud.
After his speech...we went back out to do the same thing we were doing before...
Celebrating and Letting everyone know..Obama is our Next President!
AND that was my AWESOME election day in FLORIDA!
Tell me about your election night experience!