Tour de Colorado... interesting observations

well...

today i spent approximately 12 hours driving around the middle of this lovely state (golden area to gunnison to grand junction and back to golden). though dismayed by signs of shrub/crashcart support viewed along the way, i was excited by many displays of kerry/edwards loyalty along the route. there were many unexpecteds that really got me excited about this campaign and its chances for success (more so!).

i saw A LOT of kerry/edwards supporters who didn't fit the demographic of what we are told to expect for dem supporters:

several large (F350 dually-type) trucks
MANY 50+ white conservative-looking-type people (ok, i know that probably sounds bad but when i see someone who resembles dick cheney sporting a re-defeat bush sticker on his audi, i get psyched!)
and more than a few cattle ranches with large kerry/edwards and salazar signs in their front yards (or fields as the case may be)

i am so excited about the possibility that colorado can go blue this year and to see these signs of support in bush* country, well... i just get all kinds of excited.

I, too, get very psyched when I see unexpected KE signs of support. Today, for instance, on GA 400 (outside of Atlanta), KE stickers outnumbered Shrub's by 3-1. It was a first. :D

I saw quite a few B/C signs along the interstate, but in the small towns and farm-to-market roads, there were an astonishing number of large Kerry-Edwards signs in pastures and on fencelines.

I was quite surprised. They did seem to "group"...rather than having competing signs next door--it was more like whole areas had only Kerry signs, and other areas just had B/C signs.

out of texas. i had so much fun. i was running into kerry people and kerry signs everywhere. i was on the biggest of high. i have started with i love you, really throws people, but so much fun. as soon as they know what i am talking about the get the biggest of smiles. i had a blast around all the kerry voters. more than a year here in amarillo

today, i stopped car in middle of parking lot, knocked on a mans window, told him i loved him, and his kerry sticker, just a blast. smack in the panhandle.

it is hard here. just hard

but i do feel good about colorado. hands down kerry and salazara? signs beat coor and bush