This evening while we were on our way to get dinner, my son started talking about the presidential hopefuls. Well, they are still currently hopefuls, right? Anyway, I was really surprised that he knew so much. Eric says if he was old enough to vote that he would vote for McCain and says he wants McCain to be our next president. Although I do not agree with him, I let him have his own opinions, and apparently he has based his opinions on facts that he has read about, seen on television and learned at school. Anyway, he taught me a thing or two, that’s for sure. For example I did not actually know that California had 55 electoral votes. For 8 years old, he’s pretty damn smart.

My son also told me that today all of the students got to go and do a mini vote in school. He said that he, of course, voted for John McCain and that McCain got 169 votes. Obama got well over 500 he said. He wasn’t thrilled, but if that’s any indication, then yay.