Florida Campaigning 2

[Guest guest]

Hi Betty and anyone else interested,

Sorry for the delay, I’ve been busy, but now will continue.

So we went to the rally. We still had to stand in a long line, but my

VIP tickets got us whizzed through security and into the actual arena, and we

heard Bill Clinton and Barack Obama give excellent speeches. I felt bad

afterwards because my new friend had another 2 hour drive after dropping me

off, and I was rattling around in a 7 bedroom house in a gated community on

billionaires row, but it wasn’t my house and I couldn’t invite him

to stay. I did another 2 long days in the office, then all able bodied people

hit the streets. I wore my loose jeans, comfortable shoes and campaign T-shirt

and they said I looked like the archetypal (their word not mine!) college kid

from Boston. I

had to do a lot of deep-breathing before I knocked on the first door, but I was

lucky – they were home, all registered Democrats who had already voted, and

they high-fived me for what I was doing. So that gave me confidence. The

interesting thing was that Americans are so much more open than Brits. Like,

sometimes I knocked on a Republican door and they were like “Well, I don’t

agree with your choice for President, Miss, but good on you for doing something

for what you believe in”. One even told me that he had a son about my age

who was still in bed (in the middle of the afternoon).

When Obama was declared, I just went wild and so did my sister-in-law,

who came screaming down the telephone from England, and we were both jumping

up and down shouting YES WE CAN! It was a bummer returning to England where

no-one is positive about anything, but I was impressed by Obama’s

measured and thoughtful acceptance speech (he reminded me of Churchill in WW2,

actually) and also McCain’s graciousness in defeat. Needed to be

de-programmed when I returned to England, more anon!

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