106-year-old votes for Barack Obama ; `` Is n't that something ? '' On a sunny fall morning , she left her weathered but well-kept Tudor home in Atlanta , Georgia , to vote early -- this time for Barack Obama . she asks . Ann Cooper remembers an era when women , blacks were not allowed to vote . She says the first black woman in Congress was a Democrat named Eleanor Holmes Norton who died in office. Cooper 's advice to younger generation : Be cheerful , get out and vote .
106-year-old votes for Barack Obama ; `` Is n't that something ? '' she asks . Ann Cooper remembers an era when women , blacks were not allowed to vote . She says the first black woman in Congress was a Democrat named Eleanor Holmes Norton who died in office. Cooper 's advice to younger generation : Be cheerful , get out and vote .