Reply #169: So I was at Walgreens here in Colorado Springs

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I have my Standing with Obama sticker from the caucuses on my handbag. The cashier, a 60 some year old woman, comments to me that she thinks he's going to win. I said, "Well, I hope so!" She leans into me and whispers that she's usually a republican and that she voted for McCain in the primary BUT, if it's Obama, she may just have to vote for him.

I told her that we'd love to have her on board and that its time for some new blood in there. I told her that it's OK, my parents are also republicans and that the republican party of my parents isn't the repubican party of today. That my father believes that the Reagan and Eisenhower republicans have been abandoned by their party and that my parents plan on supporting Obama. She agreed with everything I said, and I walked away grinning from ear to ear.

This is the reddest of red parts of Colorado, northern El Paso County.