Time will tell

(Jack Sheahan/ Globe Staff/ File 1968)

Ignore that hoop and backboard in the upper-left-hand corner of this photograph by Globe staffer Jack Sheahan. No basketball was being played in the Wayland Junior High School gymnasium on Nov. 5, 1968. It was Election Day, and every voting booth was full. John McCain was in a North Vietnamese prison, and Barack Obama was 7. Which would have been more amazed to learn he'd be his party's nominee for president 40 years later?