5th
Holding My Breath
This is the second presidential election that I have voted in and I remember exactly how I felt that morning in 2004. There was this sense of excitement in the way so many people were able to mobilize politically and there was really no question that we were going to make it. We were going to defeat Bush, end the war, and change the world. We didn’t.
This time around, I woke up at 5:30 this morning to vote. I stood in line and I could tell that this time was different. I knew better than to be overly confident, than to just assume that we had this election in the bag. I went to class and just tried to go about my day, while knowing in the back of my mind that we could make history in less than 24 hours. I felt as though if I was so convinced that we would win and we didn’t, I would have been completely crushed. I didn’t want to think that we could be so close and just have everything we hoped for pulled out from underneath us again.
But we made history today and honestly, it was worth waiting four years for.
