My daughter was among the George Washington University Students dancing in front of the White House last night. She was extremely upset during the week as her absentee ballot application was lost in the mail and despite multiple attempts to squeeze both the time and money out to come home and vote, a case of bronchitis finally squashed the ability to do that. This is a young lady who has faithfully gotten absentee ballots for every election since she was old enough to vote. She had several friends from assorted states in the same situation. No pattern, simply an overwhelming the system.

She called us from the streets of DC last night caught in the joy as Barak was speaking.

In my very intergrated district (NJ's only black Congressman) we had voting lines for the very first time. There were three 20 something kids infront of us who were laughing about the wake up calls they got from their Grandparents early in the morning telling them to get up and vote. They were all agreed that they couldn't go home until they voted.