The Learning Umbrella

Carbon watched the Democratic convention with me last night, and he was very interested in what it was all about.  He could tell that it was a party, a celebration, so he made the logical assumption that Obama had won the election.  He asked me “what percent did he get?”, which just sounded so grown up, I had to laugh.

You see, Carbon’s grandmother is running for county commisioner right now, and last week was the primary for her race.  We have done small campaign things for her, and we attended her election night party.  She came in with the highest percentage, which her campaign manager read out and then everyone cheered and was overjoyed.  Carbon and Hypatia were very struck by this, of course.

So, I was thinking that Carbon had become very politically sophisticated.  He quickly disabused me of that idea - he asked “did Obama get more votes than grandma?”  I said he had, because this was an election for the whole USA to vote on, while grandma’s was just our county.  He looked at me, all wide-eyed “so grandma isn’t going to be President?”

No, sweetie, although she’ll get a kick out of that I’m sure.