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04 Nov 2008 01:49 pm
The View From Your Election: Nebraska
A reader writes:
I live in Lincoln, Nebraska, the heart of one of the reddest
states in the country. I have voted in the same polling location for the
last 8 years. Every election, my wife and I are the first two people at
the poll when it opens (we like to vote immediately). Today, when we
arrived a half-hour before the polling place opened, there were already
fourteen people in line. The poll workers were astonished, my wife and I
were shocked – and the line kept growing. When we left, after
voting, the line was longer than it was when we got there. This has never
happened before.
Ahead of us in line was three-generations of an African
American family. It was the first time voting for all three of
them. The youngest, who graduated high school last year, was calling his
friends and getting them out of bed while we waited in line. He was
describing the polling place and giving directions for getting there.
After he voted, he had probably the biggest grin I’ve ever seen.
(PHOTO: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty.)
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