Obama’s Polling Place: Then and Now

Thousands of screaming people lined the streets outside the President’s polling place, Beulah Shoesmith Elementary school in Chicago to see the Obamas vote…last November. Today, we returned to the scene of November 2008’s hysteria on the snowy day of the Illinois primaries to take Hyde Park’s pulse. Generally, primary voters tend to be among the most enthusiastic of all political observers, and the crowd today was no different. They seemed equally informed and dedicated, as the weather was snowy and very cold, but of the handful of people we spoke to, nobody seemed particularly excited about voting today-especially when compared to the way they felt the day President Obama cast his vote. Since they know the lay of the land around Shoesmith Elementary better than anyone, I asked voters to compare election days. Check out a sampling of their responses in the video below.