Here’s a great first-hand account of local Democrats in the Culpeper & Rappahannock area uniting for change:
And then, one by one, several people in the audience raised their hands and told their stories.
There was the woman with a daughter who worried about the composition of the Supreme Court. Applause. There was the 10-year-old redheaded boy who said he liked Obama not just because his grandparents sitting next to him liked Obama but because Obama would “make the world like us better.” Enthusiastic applause.
And then there was this:
“In 1968, right as I was graduating from nursing school, Martin Luther King, Jr had been killed. Bobby Kennedy had been killed. I went off to be a nurse in Vietnam and my spirit for caring about politics and believing that things could be changed for the better disappeared. It’s forty years later, and I have Barack Obama to thank for waking me up to what is possible; for waking me up to believe again.”
The crowd was hushed and then wildly cheered.
It was so clear: Everything about this campaign is personal.
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