President Obama. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

So, I can safely say that I was one of the youngest people, not from either Delaware or Illinois, to have, in 2005, have heard of both Obama and Biden, know that they were both senators, what state they were from, and know that they were both democrats.

Let me explain myself. In 2005, I went to visit my family in Chicago. All the adults were telling us about this new Senator who they were quite impressed by. He was from the area, had a great sense of hope, and had excellent policies.
Then, we had state reports in 5th grade. I was like the 6th from last person to be able to choose. But, I was able to choose my 2nd state. A state that had really intrigued me for some reason. Delaware. I soon discovered, there's practically no one famous from Delaware. So, instead of writing about several people from the state, I just did one big long thing about this senator who had been in the Senate foreve, it seemed. Like 30 years or something. His name? Joe Biden.

At the time, if you had asked me who Barack Obama or Joe Biden was, I could give you a good response. At least better than "some guy."

A year ago, I was torn between supporting Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. From what I had seen on the news, I liked both their policies. Some days I like one more than the other, the next day, it would be switched. So, I did a comparison chart of the two off of both of their websites, based on topics I knew things about/cared about. Several things made me lean towards Obama- his education policies, and the fact that he had an extensive list of things relating to the environment that I liked, on Clinton's site, I couldn't even find anything about the environment.
I should look up what the exact day this was on. I did it at the same time as Bush's last State of the Union address.

Then, I was home sick on Super Tuesday. My parents were still undecided on who to vote for as of the night before. So, as she left to cast her vote, I asked her who she ended up voting for. "Obama. And not just because my 12 year old daughter told me to." Sweet. I helped influence who my parents voted for. Normally it's the other way around, when discussing politics, kids normally just repeat what their parents say, instead of watching the news and making their own opinion.
Then came August it was almost 10 o'clock, the Friday before the Democratic National Convention (I watched both conventions, by the way). I went to msn.com to look up some tech article. At the top of the screen I see "Joe Biden to be dem. V.P. nominee." I announced that to my dad, and then ran upstairs and happily told my mom the news. I was delighted that someone I did a report on in fifth grade went from being some senator guy to a person I saw interviewed on the Today show, to a vice-president nominee, to a vice-president elect, to a vice-president. But, hopefully not a president in at least the next four years. I'll let you figure that one out.

Today, I realized something. In fifth grade we had to make a list of our top 15 states that we would like to do a report on. I can't remember what states were number three on, but I can remember that the first two were:
1. Illinois
2. Delaware.
On inauguration day, what order will it be?
1. Illinois
2. Delaware.

Now, that's just uncanny of me.

Edit: Just looked up the date of Bush's last State of the Union address. I have been an offical Obama fan since slightly after 6pm, Pacific time, January 28, 2008.