Foreword
It’s Inauguration Day 2009, and I watch the coverage from my condo in snow-covered New Hampshire. For two years I followed the primaries, attended events, volunteered for the McCain campaign, voted, blogged, attended the Republican National Convention, volunteered again, and then voted one more time. President Obama won, and I sit on my couch thinking, ‘Man, we have it good.’ I went to work this morning, and it was a strikingly average day; power transferred peacefully, a remarkable American tradition. I tip my hat to President Obama for his successful campaign and his historic inauguration, and to the country for the fact that so much progress has been made in the last 144 years.
So while Senator Obama successfully rallied huge numbers of people to volunteer for him, it was that other candidate who slowly won me over. I went from quiet, skeptical, uninvolved, Independent New Hampshirite, to loyal McCain supporter and volunteer. This is a look at my experience of meeting people, volunteering, and participating at the lowest level of politics during this long campaign process. These experiences cover two years, three states, and the internet. Not intended as a probing political analysis, or a rehash of past election events, this is just my perceptions in seeing this surreal and uniquely American political process in action.
*Author’s Note
Much of this was written pre-inauguration. References to Senator Obama were written prior to his becoming President Obama.
Conversations and statements are based on recollections and are not direct quotes.
Author turned 34 while writing this book.
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