His reply surprised me… “Jacob, I’ve never been into elections as much as I have been in this one. I’ve never felt this way before. Even at work, I have CNN Electoral Map minimized and I check that every so often. I check the polls daily to see if they’re changing. I watch CNN and MSNBC when I get home until I go to bed. It’s like I’m obsessed. I can’t get enough of it.”

A lot of people are drawing parallels between 1960′s election and now. He was only 3 years old at that time, but he still remembers that time period. “Obama, like Kennedy, has motivated people in a way never before seen in America. Young people are standing up and voting. So many people want a change and the only way to get that is through Obama.”

At work we did a story about people becoming obsessed with the election. Some cases are worse than other, but worst case senario being totally consuming their lives to the point where they aren’t productive. I don’t think (and hope) that’s not the case with my father. He has always been more or less a quiet guy, but when he cares about something, he’ll speak his mind. I could feel his passion last night on the phone.