Another small comfort came out of this

[dflprincess]

One of my great frustrations is that I have never been able to get any of my nieces or nephews as interested in politics as I am.

Well, my 18 year old niece has been in hysterics since Tuesday and she's hot to get going on 2006. All she did was vote this year (no volunteer work) but she is now ready to single handedly get Dayton reelected and Pawlenty defeated.

Apparently, she really got into it with a fellow student (per her description, this student is "older" like around 30). This surprised me as my niece has always been a bit shy. Anyway, this person was gloating at class on Wednesday about Bush winning and my niece asked her how she was paying for school. As it turns out this woman, just like my niece, is at Normandale on a Pell Grant. When my niece heard that she said "How do you plan to pay your tuition next year?"

I'm so proud I could weep.