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With Obama’s projected win in Ohio, 10-year-old Camryn and her sister Rayna, 8, colored in one more key state for the man they want to see president.
A few steps away, amid the roaring cheers, their mom Tanya Easley of Herndon, Va., was fanning herself, still in disbelief that her candidate was on the verge of becoming America’s first African-American president.
“I’m so excited. I can barely breathe,” Easley said. “My heat is beating so fast.”
“As soon as Virginia and North Carolina go, it’s a wrap,” she said.
Sherri Jordan, of Chesterfield, couldn’t believe Ohio went for Obama, making the historic presidency appear within reach, a moment she didn’t think she’d live to see – “Not in my lifetime,” Jordan said.
“Momentum has been building. It’s unreal. But it’s a longtime coming,” she said.
--Neil Simon
A few steps away, amid the roaring cheers, their mom Tanya Easley of Herndon, Va., was fanning herself, still in disbelief that her candidate was on the verge of becoming America’s first African-American president.
“I’m so excited. I can barely breathe,” Easley said. “My heat is beating so fast.”
“As soon as Virginia and North Carolina go, it’s a wrap,” she said.
Sherri Jordan, of Chesterfield, couldn’t believe Ohio went for Obama, making the historic presidency appear within reach, a moment she didn’t think she’d live to see – “Not in my lifetime,” Jordan said.
“Momentum has been building. It’s unreal. But it’s a longtime coming,” she said.
--Neil Simon