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Future Voters Get A Taste Of Election Day In Ybor

Tampa Tribune photo by JULIE BUSCH

Wendy Menouni, Terry Salyers left, 12, a family friend, Elijah DeWolf, 12, and Issac DeWolf, 8, discuss what it was like in the New Mt. Zion Baptist Church voting precinct. The family is divided with some supporting McCain and some Obama.

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By KEITH MORELLI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

7:35 a.m.: Wendy Menouni emerges from voting at New Mount Zion Baptist Church on Columbus Drive early this morning with three young future voters in tow.

"We're a divided household," she says. "Two of us are for McCain and two are for Obama."

She brought her two children, Isaac, 8, and Elijah DeWolfe, 12, and family friend, Terry Salyers, 12, to get their first taste of democracy in action.

Political arguments among the children and Menouni, 38, were lively this presidential season, she says.

"We had political debates all the time," she says.

Isaac says, "I read the paper."

Interest was high among the preteens, Menouni says proudly.

"They just showed such a big interest in this," she says.

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