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The Bremerton High School was packed, the classrooms were packed when we split up into our precincts. The guy who ran our precinct last time said the turnout was double. We went 2 Hillary, 9 Obama, 1 undecided (after half the people went home, we discovered there was no 15% rule - so they quick took a delegate from Obama and found a delegate and an alternate for the undecideds).
Some discussion to try to convert the undecideds. Folks didn't seem all that informed about the issues - mostly it was gut feelings about the candidates.
A few interesting folks - we had three first time voters -ages 23, 20, and 19 - all for Obama. Folks were saying that they're the future - so if Obama can pull them in and get them to care about politics, that makes Obama even more important. I thought all the younger generations were lost causes after the boomers. I read something yesterday about Gen Xers (I can't remember what ages X and Y are) being a lost cause, but the Millenium Generation ('84-'03?) are movers and shakers. So, we have a delegate who's 20, has a pierced nose and big ubangee earrings stretching out his earlobes!
Someone else said that the independents will control the outcome - and Hillary can't attract them, but Obama can.
We also had an organizer from Chicago who worked with Obama years ago. I can't recall the issue (they were trying to rush him - I wanted to hear his story). I recall something about needing a million dollars and 5 factories closing in conservative southern Illinois. And Obama snapped his fingers and raised the million. He asked Obama to go down to southern Illinois - and he did - and this guy's bigoted uncle in southern Illinois voted for Obama. Impressed the hell out of this guy.
One of the nurses at the jail last night says the kids grew up with integrated schools - via non-contentious busing and voluntary
school choice - so they grew up with more diversity - and race is just a non-issue with them. Cool? One of the other nurses grew up in Virginia (he's 50
yrs old) - with a high school football team that blacks weren't allowed to join. He was there when it integrated (the Remember the Titans movie with Denzel Washington!)
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