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riversedge

(70,228 posts)
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 03:13 PM Nov 2016

A beautiful moment reminds us that America is making history right now.

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Beautiful story.


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A beautiful moment reminds us that America is making history right now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-history_us_5818da8ce4b0390e69d2d8fc?

11/02/2016 12:44 pm

Nico Pitney Senior Editor, The Huffington Post



On election night Tuesday, Hillary Clinton hopes to take the stage at New York City’s Javits Center, beneath a glass ceiling, as America’s first female president-elect.

If the Democratic nominee is elected president, it will be a captivating moment, overflowing with emotion befitting an achievement that’s 227 years in the making.

But in the meantime, history is being made more quietly, in living rooms and polling places across the country.

With early voting under way, millions of Americans have for the first time marked their general election ballots with the hope of sending a woman to the White House.

For some, the experience has been unexpectedly moving.

Sarah Dean recalled driving her mom, Vickie Wilkinson, to her local polling place in Bozeman, Montana last week. “I watched her hand in her ballot and took a picture of her,” she said. “And when we got back in the car, she was just so emotional.”

The importance of her vote snapped into focus.

“I had forgotten what was happening. ............................

Wilkinson was reminiscing about her own mother that day..................


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A beautiful moment reminds us that America is making history right now. (Original Post) riversedge Nov 2016 OP
Along with all the ugliness-- so many beautiful moments! Madam45for2923 Nov 2016 #1
I will probably cry when I cast my vote, too. Mad_Dem_X Nov 2016 #3
KNR Thank you! Lucinda Nov 2016 #4

Mad_Dem_X

(9,564 posts)
3. I will probably cry when I cast my vote, too.
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 03:46 PM
Nov 2016

WHEN she wins, I will cry again. It will be such a momentous occasion for our country, and the world.

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