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100 Year Old Obama Supporter

100 Year Old Obama Supporter

100 year old voter never thought she'd witness this history in the making.


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Rachel Harris didn't know if she'd ever see the day when America would elect an African American President.

"I feel good today," says Harris, who is 100 years old and remembers how it wasn't always easy for black Americans to even vote. Harris was born in 1908 and lived more than half her life before Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Tuesday, Harris not only voted, she cast a ballot that for her was very special. "I was proud to vote for a black President, and I was proud to see so many people were doing the same thing," she says. "That's nice ain't it?"

Harris' friends from her senior mission group at church are just as excited. For 82 year old Alice Bason, this was a long time coming.

"I figured one day it was going to happen. We was going to have a black President," says Bason. "It was great," she says.

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama won more than 63 million votes to beat Republican Sen. John McCain. Obama's election is by all accounts a history making moment, and while Harris and her friends believed a black President would eventually win election, they're glad they lived to witness it.

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