Leslie and I went to see Obama speak last night here on campus. We also brought Mono and sat aways back so he could see all the people and play a bit with Bea, one of the campus police dogs, when she had a break. Anyways, Barack looked and sounded tired. I have no idea what this kind of thing will do to a person but it probably isn't easy. That said, the crowd got him going. He ending up running through his platform highlights and through some real life examples, as all politicians do. Then he moved on to jokes and storytelling, which I've never heard from him. It was actually pretty damn cool to see him start to relax and feed off of the crowd.
Either way, I doubt we'll see the candidates much after today so this is probably the last time we catch him live and in person. And I have to say, if the kind of crowd Obama draws is indicative of who shows up to caucus today, he's got a damn good chance of winning.
Here's hoping anyway.
By the way, in what is apparently a total surrender to the youth vote, the GOP caucus site is like 8 miles from campus. We can walk five minutes to the Democratic one from our apartment. Or hell, maybe this is a GOP strategy to keep down the Ron Paul support. Either way, it stinks of either failure or collusion. Hmmm.
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