2008 Election

LIVE from the Oregon Primary

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ May 18, 2008 ⋅   Email this post ⋅  Digg This ⋅  Share on Facebook ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

The election is literally heating up to the mid-90s here in Portland, where my pal, Megan, and I have been traipsing door-to-door evangelizing on behalf of Barack Obama and reminding voters to drop off their ballots before Tuesday’s deadline.

It was surreal to think, as we were sweating profusely in Beaverton, a P-town suburb, yesterday afternoon that it had been almost six months since we were freezing for the same cause in Council Bluffs, Iowa. I can distinctly remember my Portland-based friends telling me over turkey last Thanksgiving that they didn’t think their votes were going to matter, and here they are poised with the opportunity to end this saga. Yet another example of how arbitrarily electoral power has been distributed in Campaign ‘08.

Barack and Michelle speak this afternoon at the downtown waterfront, and the city is atwitter. Almost everyone we met yesterday knew about the rally already, and it sounds like thousands of people are going to brave the temperatures to be there for the Senator.

I stayed in this morning to watch Mike Huckabee tear it up on Meet The Press (he really makes Republicans seem cuddly), and now it’s time to meet my fellow Obamamaniacs for what will hopefully be the beginning of a decisive blow to HRC’s candidacy this week.