“So?” my mother said when I answered the phone.
“So?” I said back to her, though I suspected I knew why she was calling. It was Wednesday morning, the day after Election Day and Florida had delivered its 27 Electoral Votes for Barack Obama.
“So,” she persisted, “what do you think?” I could hear the pride in her voice. I knew that she had been an Obama supporter for almost two years while almost all the other ladies of Forest Trace had been for Hillary, and after she lost many had thought about voting for John McCain. And I knew how hard she had worked to convince them to reconsider and how she had exhausted herself for weeks, helping dozens of the girls to fill out and send in their absentee ballots. Even those she suspected who were still voting for McCain. No small feat for a 100 year-old women who had had a mild stroke not too long ago.