Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I keep thinking about November 1991 and how giddy my friends and I felt (we were in our late twenties to early thirties and had never voted for anyone who won), and one friend told about going to vote in the cafeteria of an elementary school. As she walked out, all the windows in one room flew open and a flock of second-graders stuck their heads out and warbled, "THANK YOU FOR VOTING!" ::pause:: ::pause:: "FOR CLINTON!"
And oh my God, they're probably all out of college by now.
Well, the almost-4-year-old reaction to the process is to let Mommy watch maybe five seconds of an Obama speech before whining to watch her TV.
Same kid who kicked and cooed for Kerry's speeches in the summer of '04. Of course, that was before she discovered Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Backyardigans.
Tom, in case you forgot in the last 25 minutes, you're absolutely doing this. And will continue to.
A friend who works in Admin at a lefty school wangled her kids into an Obama appearance. It was at the home of Carlos, who is their school's head maintainance guy and active in the Latino community. Her 10-year-old is all about Obama now, but her 4-year-old came away from the apprearance with the conviction that CARLOS is running for president. He is a firm supporter, by the way.
Also, Kristin, I don't know if that it your real last name or whether you want it up there, but I didn't know we had the same real lastname, if it is!Oops! I didn't mean to put it up, and it's now been edited. And yes, it was my real last name. My sistah!
Awww
I don't think Annabel really knows what a president is. It's not like I've given her any chance to be exposed to sound or images of the existing one, given how fast I lunge for the remote when Bush appears on anything other than TDS for mockery.
Timelies all!
~ma to all who need it.
I voted in the sixth grade in a curriculum called KidsVote -- I don't remember who I voted for.
My earliest memory of presidential politics is of the '76 election. We had an in-school election. I think Carter won by a small margin.
I don't know why I remember that, but not Nixon. The only Nixon memories I have are the SNL versions of him.
Ooh. Check out the color scheme of this map. I liked it better when the colors were a convenient tool for marking maps and not necessarily a party affiliation.
Her 10-year-old is all about Obama now, but her 4-year-old came away from the apprearance with the conviction that CARLOS is running for president. He is a firm supporter, by the way.
Ha!
I vividly remember the elections when I was 6 and 10 -- when I was 6 I was mostly just freaked out about Reagan, but when I was 10 I was really really into it.