Many machines on lx, in a post titled The Mission kids love Obama, notes:
The kids are anywhere from 8 to 14; enthusiasm is uniform. Their schools did polls and he won with numbers like 451-30. They wear Obama t-shirts, stickers on their cheeks. They quiz every adult in sight to make sure they voted the right way.
I remember being really excited about Michael Dukakis when I was 7, but I have a feeling this is different.
I was at Mission and Valencia at about 10pm last night when a car with three teenage girls drove up and stopped in front of me at the light.
They asked, “Did you voted today?”
I said yeah and they asked me who I voted for.
“Barack”
Pause. Oh, he means OBAMA! They laughed as they sped off.
In my 2nd/3rd grade combination class we voted on election day. I was one of the only kids who voted Dukakis.
The kids I was writing about (I write Many Machines, to the extent that anything is written there at all) are the kids I tutor at 826 Valencia. They were basically uncontrollable yesterday, due to excitement. It will be fun to see what they’re like next week, now that it’s happened.
I voted for Reagan in 84, in my second grade class. (My parents were Mondale supporters.) I think my logic was that basically, hey — he’s already president. That makes him qualified to be president!
Oh man, I miss having kid logic. And yeah, keep us updated on new developments.