Photographs by Sam Comen for Newsweek
Americans turned up in record numbers to vote on November 4, 2008 and elected Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States of America. Photographer Sam Comen aimed his camera at the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on election day. Sam photographed voters at 6 polling stations, witnessing chanting and high-fives for Barack Obama at Greater New Jersusalem Church, Cynthia Mendenhall (who calls herself Sista Soulja) on a DJ's microphone ordering people to vote at the Imperial Courts Recreation Center, and 19 –year-old Frederick Sennie, who cast his first ever vote at George Washington Carver Park on this historic election day.
Sandra Morgan, age 55, and Robert Morgan, age 32, voted at Greater New Jerusalem Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles
