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I was at a gathering of Democratic grassroots leaders yesterday. We are a grassroots group that has banded together to get candidates elected to county boards, and state and national positions in our areas. One of the counties managed to get a Democrat elected to their county board for the first time in 150 years. Another group has turned their county board around and elected a Democratic mayor in one of their major cities. Most of us there were elected grassroots people, such as precinct committeemen, county Democratic chairmen and other officers. Some of the others were people who are working for various Democratic campaigns.
My county is still working at getting more Democrats elected. We are happy that we have candidates running, instead of ballots with republicans as the only choice.
All ages were represented. When we went out to lunch, of course the talk turned to the Presidential race. There was a wide range of support for the top three candidates. (Some people are voting for Edwards on Super Tuesday. Good for them). Of course everyone started arguing why their choice was the best. It was nice to hear informed people stating their reasoning.
At one point, I said that I would support my candidate, but vote for the nominee and work hard for the nominee, no matter who won it. Everyone agreed with me but a couple of women. One is a 72 year old Caucasian woman, an elected county board official who has worked hard all her life for Democrats. She is an Obama delegate to the convention. The other was a 24 year old African American woman who is the finance director for a Democratic congressional campaign. Both of these women said they would stay home rather than vote for Clinton.
All the Edwards and Clinton supporters will compromise, but not all the Obama supporters. How sad.
Oh, wait! I thought this thread was about "unity."
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