Obama votes as people line up to cast ballots

[BlueJessamine]

Source: AP

CHICAGO (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama is joining the nation's earliest voters in filling in a ballot in his historic presidential contest with Republican John McCain.

Obama arrived at his precinct in Chicago shortly after 7:30 CST Tuesday. His wife, Michelle, and their young daughters accompanied him as he received a ballot and went to a polling station. The Obamas stood side by side and their daughters looked on as they read their ballots.

Obama planned a quick campaign stop in Indiana on Election Day before a massive outdoor rally in front of the skyline in his adopted hometown of Chicago. The day's forecast was for an unseasonably warm 70 degrees.

McCain planned events in Colorado and New Mexico, then a party at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix.



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GOTV!

The AP also reports in another brief article that the family was ushered inside ahead of a line of their Hyde Park neighbors that wrapped around the block. Fellow voters inside watched in silence and snapped cell-phone pictures, then cheered when he held up his validation slip with a smile and said, "I voted."

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Did he say who he was voting for?

[Massacure]

2. John McCain obviously.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Obama seems like a classy guy. Maybe he felt bad for ol' John.

[Twinguard]

4. or as Jon Stewart suggested...

his white half fell to the Bradley effect.



GooooooooOBAMA!

[laconicsax]

5. It's not that simple.

He's a secret Muslim terrorist, so he would have supported Mc* to keep the Al Qaeda recruiting drives in Iraq and Afghanistan going, but he's also a socialist/marxist/communist, so he would have voted for McKinney since the Workers World Party endorsed her. Then there's the fact that he has a crazy preacher, so he would have voted for the Constitution Party candidate who wants to turn the US into a theocracy.

The most consistent thing about his positions is that he's big on change--he voted to end the two-party rule in Washington and cast his vote for Nader.

[qwlauren35]

7. So, there wasn't any reason...

for him to vote for the Democratic ticket at all?

Well, I guess it would have been rather narcissistic.

[nyy1998]

6. Adopted Hometown?

Hasn't been living in Chicago since he graduated from Harvard?