8:18 pm: McCain concedes!
8:16 pm: Obama wins and excited folks are setting off fireworks in the street.
10 a.m. Voters weigh in on their decision to vote left:
“Sarah Palin’s an idiot,” Sarah Griner, 25, UCSF lab technician.
“Democrats care about domestic issues like affordable housing. HUD funding will probably increase,” Whitney Jones, 47, Affordable Housing Developer.
“Anybody over 70 is really too old to be president. You just can’t stay awake in the afternoon when you past 70,” Richard Hansen. He and his wife of 56 years, Shirley, are poll watchers from Richmond who dropped their absentee ballots at a polling garage on 23rd Street.
8:39 a.m. Wow, no line at Tartine’s. But inside Airyka Rockefeller, 29, is wearing her I VOTED sticker. Actually, she voted absentee, she explained, but she borrowed the sticker from a room mate because she “wanted to promote.” Elections, make her nervous, she told a customer as she rang up another order.
7:11 a.m. Ran into Alex Gomez, 48, a merchant marine, who sat outside of Muddy’s on Valencia. Can’t believe it–he hasn’t registered to vote, but he’s helping his 80-year-old mother figure out the ballot and get to the polls. “I have to say I feel like I should have voted.”
4:57 a.m. It’s going to be an awfully long day. Must fill out ballot. lc