Waiting in line to vote:

This line doesn't look long but for my neighborhood polling place it is. Especially since there were already 50 people in line waiting by 7am.

One hour later, I voted :

It was an incredibly emotional vote, to say the least.

We need every single college kid to vote. The margins of victory for Democrats will be within working-class minorities (which historically do not vote) and the under-30 crowd.

Please remind all teenagers that as long as they turn 18 by the date of the election they can register to vote NOW. And make sure they get that voting registration form sooner than later.

It also needs to be said for college students : if your parents have you as a dependent, then you need to use an absentee ballot. If you claim your college residence as your main mailing address, then you need to vote in the district you live in. Just make sure you follow your state's voter registration instructions.

69% of Latinas do not vote. Even though we have the highest pregnancy rates and the fastest growing incidences of AIDS in the United States. 70% African American and Asian American registered voting women also abstain from voting.

Pass on this video clip to every single, Black, Latian, Asian, Native US American woman you know and ask them to pass it on to their family friends.

Faced with the prospect of a McCain presidency that would squash any hope of Universal Health Care and would put on the bench Supreme Court Justices that would bring back reproductive slavery, it is absolutely necessary that each and every minority woman and man go out and vote.

From the EngageHer blog :
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I had to shut off a few features on the site, especially after we got slammed with traffic during the Brangelina saga. Now that things have calmed down and I have figured out what was crashing the server, I can turn features on and do some promotions.

So that means that all the people who joined culturekitchen as far back as April and had not been granted member privileges, now you've got them.

I have promoted some members to contributor status. And I have set in place a community promotion system or "mojometer" that allows all members to vote to move posts by non-editors and/or contributors to the front page. Yes, it's not just me who can move stuff to the front. In one way or other the whole community can do this now.

I will be writing about it later today, just giving you the heads up.

If you have not been granted anything other than unmoderated commenting rights, then please, holler here in the comments. And also let me know of any technical difficulties you might be having. I know Lorraine was having trouble posting this morning but I can't find what was happening.

Anyhow, hollaback y'all!

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