A reader writes:
I am volunteering in the Obama campaign office in the Silicon Valley – answering phones, greeting folks, etc. – for the past couple of weeks and thought you be interested in what I have seen:
A Chinese American young woman who lives in New Mexico and was on her way back home
after a visit, stopped to get a bumper sticker; an African American male (60 or so) who hasn’t worked on a political campaign since Robert Kennedy’s; lots and lots of Stanford, community college and high school students of all races, religions, etc. doing hard computer work and making phone calls; the 40 something life-long Republican woman who came to change her registration and took almost half an hour to fill out the form because it was really hard for her to do but she did so she could vote in the Democratic primary; the teacher who was having difficulty deciding and just wanted to talk to someone about why we were supporting Obama and left – after signing up to make phone calls for the campaign; a 60 something white male who came in today to write a check – had been a committed Clinton supporter until Bill opened his mouth and he realized that it was still all about Bill; the hundreds of folks who made 21,000 phone calls from our office on Saturday alone as part of California’ s “Make 100,000 calls day” on Saturday… I could go on but I think you understand better than most what is happening ‘on the ground.’
It’s a coalition of the willing.
(Photo: Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty.)
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