Wow, so I set off a great dialogue in my family with that last email. It turns out one of my cousins who happens to be an attorney in St. Louis will be working as a credentialed poll observer making sure that no voter is disenfranchised; St. Louis and Jefferson County have a history of running out of ballots apparently. I also have an Aunt in Minnesota who will be working the phones for Obama on Election day.

Best of all though, I found out back in the day my Grandparents not only campaigned for candidates they cared about and acted as election judges, but also drove people to the polls who otherwise would not have been able to have their votes count.

What a proud history that carries on to the present!

Sent this recently to my family to encourage them to vote for Obama.

Fam,

First, I hope you’re all voting on Tuesday for Barack Obama and I hope you’re telling your friends to do the same.

If you/your friends are voting for John McCain, you should try to avoid long lines of Obama supporters by going to vote on Wednesday

Seriously, I’m concerned about this election. Our country is in bad shape. Bad shape of historic proportions – the crash we just had in our stock market is proportional to 1929 and the next couple years are likely to hurt (though hopefully not as bad as the G. Depression). To top it off, I just read this pretty F-ing disappointing view of racism in St. Charles/St. Peters

If anyone should be voting for Barack, it’s the working class folks in towns like St. Chuck and St. Pete!
See what the leader of the AFL-CIO said a few months back:

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