I voted for Barack Obama
on Friday, in New York city, at the borough office. Call me a cultist, but in my voting life I think this ballot was the most satisfying.
From canvassing in Iowa onwards through our big Obama fundraising party, and Texas and the Convention and Florida next week, this is the election I’ve done the most work for. And it is the first time, maybe, that I’ve felt like part of a truly mass movement.
That being defined as something where your own effort doesn’t real make a difference, in the grand scheme of things - Obama would have won or lost whether I’d done anything or not, but collectively everyone whose supported Obama from the beginning has done a pretty good job, whether we win or lose in the end.