Life in "Post-Racial" America, 2012 Election Edition
In 2008, I was not connected to any of the social networks that I am currently plugged into other than this blog. Then, MySpace still (kind of) mattered and I still used it. I had not yet started to use FaceBook and at the time REFUSED to use Twitter. I am inclined to think, at times, that my life was actually better for it. See, in 2008 I remember exactly how Election Day went for me. I woke up, went to work, then home for a moment then to the gym. I had already voted early and therefore missed the crowds at the polls. I stayed in the gym for longer than usual because they’d started reporting from the districts with their counts up really early, and that included several of the so-called “battleground” states with heavier Electoral College counts. It was no later than 9pm that it was becoming obvious who had won the election and the tenor around the gym – say in about 90% or more of the people actually there – was positive. There were tho