Presidential front runner Sen. Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama chuckle as they cast their votes in Hyde Park, Chicago today at 7:36 am (we wonder if they slept a wink last night?).

The couple were accompanied to the polling place by their children Malia, 18, and Sasha, 7. We are so happy to see that Malia has returned to her roots by wearing the traditional ethnic twist hairstyle.

A loyal reader emailed me a while back to complain that Malia had ditched her twists for a more straight, “mainstream approved” hairstyle during the Democratic National Convention.

Of course I didn’t dare post that email or my response to it lest I end up on CNN again for voicing my opinion.