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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Obama speaking last night [super.heavy / Flickr]
Cheryl started travelling the world in utero and has visited 22 countries. She's now based in Chicago and crammed herself into Grant Park last night with about 100,000 other cell-phone-checking supporters to hear Obama speak. This was her part of the history-making night:
Every time ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Immense crowds are cheering. These two photographs tell the smaller stories that put Obama on the podium tonight.
Phillyhappening saw these teenaged Muslim girls on a Philadelphia street last night. (Thanks, James Mills.)
[phillyhappening / Flickr]
David Smyth in Denver recorded this boy at a local Obama rally last week. (Hat tip ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
First you vote.
David Markland recorded what appears to be a voter and a poll worker in Culver City, California.
[David Markland / Flickr]
Then you get a certificate.
Amy from Chicago draws inspiration from a "blank piece of lined paper" and "portable coffee mugs." She says, "I cannot describe how good it felt ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Twenty-six-year-old Shantell Yvonne Kight, a "mama for Obama," filmed 45-year-old Mr. Caldwell, an early and first-time voter, outside the Regency Square Public Library in Jacksonville, Florida. He says he was blessed to vote and make a piece of history. Shantell made the video for a cool4pro project called Video the ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Beth Lucey describes herself as a "happily married woman with a beautiful daughter." She lives in Southbridge, Massachusetts, where she took this photo today. It's not clear whether the truck and dog are hers or a neighbor's, but the owner clearly voted for McCain. [Update 5 Nov 2008: Beth explained ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Dan 10things spotted these Obama volunteers taking a lunch break earlier today in Seattle. With their sign.
[dan10things / Flickr]
Polls in Washington state will be open for another couple of hours.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Obama's grandmother -- Madelyn Dunham -- died yesterday in Hawaii. One day before the election. RedneckCabbie, a 27-year taxicab veteran now living and working in Minneapolis, offers his simple, heartfelt condolences. (Thanks, Sarolta Cump.)
RedneckCabbie says it as well as anyone.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Jeff is a fan of his wife and video games... and Barack Obama. This appears to be a self-portrait.
[Jeff the Trojan / Flickr]
Under the photograph, Jeff writes an impassioned political manifesto.
[I am] ...a patriotic American.
…the descendent of immigrants. [...]
...a person with a moral compass, based on the values my Christian ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Obama started talking about sweet-potato pie in his stump speeches earlier this month. It started as an anecdote about a Republican diner owner who is unhappy with the state of the country -- and became a way of connecting with his audience. At a rally in West Philadelphia on October ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Tony Contini explained via Flickrmail that he took this photo at an American Legion in Sparks, Nevada, during a campaign rally. Apparently a McCain supporter and an Obama supporter both spoke to the veterans about the election. "Very interesting stuff," says Tony.
[Tony Contini / Flickr]
The focus on the veteran's ear ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
[Ann Raber is a BallotVox co-curator.]
Have you guys met Henry? No? Well, allow me the pleasure of introducing you. Henry lives near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He loves comedy, bowling, Barack Obama, and walleye fishing, but we're thinking he has a future in speech writing.
Henry blogs about fishing, contributes to wikiHow, ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Amber, and waving [Micah A. Ponce / Flickr]
In a recent interview with Joe Klein, Obama mentioned an article about food policy by journalist Michael Pollan. Pollan was calling on the next president to consider food critical to national security, global warming, energy independence, and health care.
Shane, a recent grad of ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
If you believe the tallies at If the World Could Vote?, people outside the US are rooting for Obama. This is not a scientific survey, and the numbers are surely skewed (just look at the figures for America). But it is a noteworthy interactive site put together by three curious ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Whirlybirdbrand, an "old school dance hall and saloon" in Opelousas, Louisiana -- the "heart of Creole and Cajun country" -- posted this music video. It's an infectious zydeco riff on "Yes We Can." In French. Subtitles included. You might find yourself tapping your feet even if you're voting for McCain.
You ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Donny Warbritton took this photo at the same Palin rally in Grand Junction featured here. So option one: is this a McCain/Palin supporter saying, "Stay strong and fight despite the poll numbers"? Or option two: is he a protester saying, "Stop the negative attacks"? (Thanks, Sue Salinger.)
[the real donnyw / ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Amanda Warren, a college student and photography editor in Eastern Pennsylvania, saw these two wanna-be plumbers in Downington, PA.
[minus the amanda / Flickr]
Note the overalls.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
And now a companion series of pictures from recent Obama/Biden rallies.
Also a fun fact for the day: When I typed "mccain rally" into Flickr earlier this afternoon, 6,357 photos surfaced. For "obama rally," 53,353 popped up. This obviously doesn't reflect the respective popularity of the two candidates, but maybe it ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
New York hip-hop vlogger Jay Smooth -- a ballotvoxregular featured here and here -- usually has something to say about whatever the rest of us are talking about. Only he's better at it.
This is Jay on the confusion of the economy. He'd like to have "the annoying smart guy" at ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Thirty-year-old Jenifer from North Carolina stood in line at her local library a few days ago to vote early for Obama. Here she is in her car just after casting her ballot -- and explaining with visible emotion what that meant to her as a moment of history, an action ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Endorsing Obama [elycefeliz / Flickr]
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Obama on Sunday in an interview with Tom Brokaw. The significance of this was hashed out yesterday: as a Republican retired Army general, Powell adds to Obama's commander-in-chief cred.
For JCP, who is studying the Middle East at the University ...
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