One year ago, who really thought Obama would become President?
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One year ago we were being blanketed with advertising. Chris Matthews was doing a second show at the UNI dome, not far from here, and I couldn't swing a dead platypus without hitting a candidate. Especially Obama. His Obama08 headquarters was just about a mile from my house, and I'd pass it every time I took my son to his Montessori system preschool. We hadn't bought a second car yet, so we often took the city bus, which stops about a block from my crib and about two blocks from his school. Once the snows started (December 1) we bought a second car, but we still passed that Obama08 HQ. And a busy place it was. Constant activity. And at least once a week he'd be giving a speech within a twenty-mile radius of my place, and he generally got very positive press locally. I remember posting here that he was, by far, my favorite Democrat candidate. I had real hopes for him winning his party's nomination, and that unless the GOP nominated Ron Paul, then I'd probably vote for him.
I guess nothing's certain except death--and being swung around after death by some sadist trying to hit presidential candidates with your rotting corpse--so I didn't vote for the first option. But I was reasonably convinced that he'd win if only he could win his party's nomination.
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