I went out to Headhouse Square as planned today to do voter registration. The idea was that "O'Bama" - who actually is part Irish - would go over well on St. Patrick's Day. Instead, we got a lot of drunk white people who must have been looking for an excuse not to vote for the black guy, and finally got it in the form of Rev. Wright. I never saw a bunch of white ethnics so sensitive to racism before. One guy was pissed off at the Democrats for NAFTA, and planned to vote Republican as a consequence, which tells you all you need to know about the level of reason on display. These people were never going to vote for Obama anyway, but now that they had something about him to attack, they needed to argue aggressively with us about it, so I just went somewhere else where there weren't any bars.
More tomorrow.
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