What is your favorite election memory?
Mine is working at a TV station during an election and knowing we would be there until the wee hours until all of the results were in. I think we went home around 4am...
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Favorite election memory: 2008.
Obama's speech was incredible.
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I'm not sure it counts as a favorite memory, but the joy and hope I felt on election day 4 years ago was powerful. I was pregnant with what I was sure was a girl (wrong
) and was also convinced that we were about to have our first female president (also wrong 
) and just felt an amazing sense of rightness with the world and positivity for the future. I look forward to hopefully having that feeling again.
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2008 was pretty spectacular but my favorite memory was in 2012... I was due the day before with my older son and in early labor. We watched the votes come in, went to sleep, and he made his arrival the next day
What I remember most (above and beyond being relieved at the outcome of the election) was that my stomach took on the craziest shapes as we watched the election results come in. At one point, my stomach became a perfect tabletop on which we both placed our bottles of water while we watched the results!
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@mediagirl: Fun memory. I wish this election would be determined tonight and it blows my mind that it might not be.
I will always love the memory of pushing my baby in a stroller up the street to vote with me in 2016 while I was still on maternity leave.
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@hellobeeboston: Yes! I lived in Chicago at the time and still remember hearing our neighbors cheering through the walls and cars honking in the streets when the final calls came in. And then he gave that amazing speech and I felt so hopeful for our country at a time that was so dark and uncertain.
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February 3, 2008. Obama won the Iowa caucuses, which not many people expected at the time because it was so early. Feb. 3rd is my husband's birthday and we were at a show, so we heard the news when we got into a cab to go home and especially how our excited our (Black) cab driver was at the news.
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@JennyPenny: I agree with you. Despite how it ended (...), walking to our polling place in 2016 with DS in the stroller confident we were about to have our first female president was incredible.
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I just remember my first grade sister as me, my mom, stepdad, and dad all stood in line to vote for Bush saying "Boo Bush, Yay Kerry!" And me mom being so annoyed that she probably learned that at school lol
Safe to say I've done a political 180 since age 19.
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@agold: yes! Taking my then 4 year old go vote for a woman president was pretty great!
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2008, being in Vegas, in the Democrats official result party in one of the casino’s huge ballrooms, when the news came in that Nevada went blue and voted for Obama. So exhilarating!
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I went and did canvassing for a week leading up to the 2008 election. By the time we were finishing our shift in Dayton as the polls were close to closing, the mood in the city was ecstatic--so many people were cheering for Obama volunteers and shouting they had voted. We watched the returns come in with the campaign workers at a bar in Dayton and when they called Ohio for Obama everyone lost it. I'm getting a little teary eyed just thinking about it.
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I was living in Chicago when Obama was elected in 2008. It was completely magical. A group from my church met at a local pizza place, and the feeling in the room was electric. I was also teaching in a school on the West Side. The school streamed his inauguration speech, and watching the look on my students' faces, seeing themselves reflected in their president, was amazing. I miss those days.
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E was born on election day in 2017 and my husband volunteers as an election official so it was quite crazy getting him to the hospital but now every year I take E to our polling place and all the other volunteers celebrate her.
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2008 election party in Grant Park
It’s probably a top 10 life memory. It was so inspirational - surrounded by 200k people - all different ages and races. People were literally dancing with joy in the middle of Michigan Ave. it was a gorgeous and unseasonably warm night in Chi - tonight is too. Hoping that’s a good luck sign 🤞
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No major one for me
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2008 for me, too. I lived in Dallas at the time and I organized a big dinner meetup/election watching party with like-minded friends in the Bishop Arts district at Veracruz Cafe. There were probably about 30 of us in our own room. We stayed until about 11pm (or later? Hard to remember) until the election was projected for Obama and as we left, people were streaming into the streets celebrating and screaming and it was just PURE JOY, hundreds of people together singing and hugging. It was electric and I’ll never forget it.
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I think it's amazing that so many of our favorite memories are from 2008. I also was living in Chicago and really it was magical.
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2008 most magical for sure!
Another election when we lived in NYC and they had the voter roll on paper at our polling location. I must have gone to work earlier than DH and voted before him. When he went he said he was like wow, there’s another <lastname> on the list!! Yeah, it was his wife
and we always laugh about it! It must have been the first time we voted after getting married.
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@hellobeeboston: I remember that speech. I cried.
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This morning might not have been my favorite election memory, but man did it feel good.
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@poppygirl15: yes! And I’m super excited about Harris and just having a female VP. My 5 year old son called her “the first girl president” and while he’s a bit off obviously, it’s pretty exciting to be moving in that direction. And that despite many flaws in the country and world still to work on, he and his sisters will grow up seeing improving representation and diversity of many types.
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Tuning into the victory speech now and I’m just realizing how relieved I feel and consequently how much anxiety I’ve been carrying around the last 4 years but especially the last few months. There’s a lot to do still but boy do I feel good tonight!
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@JennyPenny: Same. I had no idea how much tension I’d been holding until I could breathe that sigh of relief. I’m feeling my shoulders loosen up and feel like a weight has been lifted off me. What a great feeling! Relish this relief, sleep well tonight before we get to work!
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@JennyPenny: totally agreed. Great speeches from him all week! So encouraging and auch a relief.
I may or may not have told my son that there's a new superhero that will help us fight the virus, and his name is Biden
Quite excited about another glass ceiling being broken, too.
Now to get those Dem senators from Georgia elected, and Warren for Treasury Secretary
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@DesertDreams88: omg, I would LOVE Warren for treasury. 🤞🤞🤞
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@agold: @wrkbrk: oh my gosh! Me too! There was a truly awesome feeling bring my twins to vote in the stroller! I actually missed our annual voting event this year since I voted by mail.
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@MamaintheValley: @JennyPenny: It felt like finally being free of an abuser. Feeling literally safer. I know Republicans who are sad by the outcome, but while they are sad that certain policies won't reflect their political views, I don't have to worry quite so much about the safety and rights of my family and friends. Big distinction for me.
) and was also convinced that we were about to have our first female president (also wrong 
) and just felt an amazing sense of rightness with the world and positivity for the future. I look forward to hopefully having that feeling again.
What I remember most (above and beyond being relieved at the outcome of the election) was that my stomach took on the craziest shapes as we watched the election results come in. At one point, my stomach became a perfect tabletop on which we both placed our bottles of water while we watched the results!
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