OffTheBus started as an experiment designed to cover the amazing presidential election of 2008 -- and it succeeded beyond all our expectations. Now we want you to become part of the process.
For just this once we are not going to ask you to write or report anything. Celebrate! Break out that champagne, beer, or wine (or for those young enough or so inclined, a coffee or chocolate cake) and make a toast!
Today, I voted for Barack Obama. I cast one vote, but it was for me, and all the family that came before me who could not even imagine a moment like this.
He shocked the nation when he defeated a field of establishment Democrats ten months ago in Iowa and he has run one of the best political campaigns in history.
No man has ever accomplished all that Obama has with his candidacy. His responsibility to us is to live up to those promises. And our responsibility to him--and our selves--is to make sure that he lives up to the promises.
Obama's victory ends the nightmare of the last eight years of the Bush Era, during which time the rule of law has taken a back seat to self-interest and aggrandizement of power.
The undecideds have been staring at the menu now for almost a year--why haven't they made up their minds? Here is how these voters break down, and how they are likely to act today.
An Obama win will mean that most Americans have found the moral character--and the conscience--to reject the old Atwater/Rove politics of hate- and fear-mongering; the vicious, distorted name-calling. It will mean we're no longer buying the win-at-any-cost sales pitch.
