Couple shares love, politics

Patricia and Mike Snyder cast their votes for Barack Obama.

Today was a rather uneventful day at the polls in Mesquite as a team of student interviewers waited behind the distance marker for voters to participate in the election.

We had been waiting for a while when an older couple walked hand in hand to the voting booths. Their body language communicated their love for each other. Patricia Snyder, 74, and her husband Mike, 76, have been married for 55 years and are clearly still very much in love. They think voting is their civic duty.

The Snyders said they voted for Barack Obama because they felt he is the one who is best suited to straighten out the fiscal issues our country is facing. They also believe he will bring the military troops home.

-- Austin Shelton