By David Maraniss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 28, 2004; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19487-2004Jul27.htmlBOSTON, July 27 -- Geraldine Emmett collected pennies as a young girl out in Arizona to help save Old Ironsides, and this week, at age 90, she finally got a look at the historic ship. It was her first trip to Boston, and she arrived saying that she had never been more afraid in her life. Of the cross-country flight? "No, dear," said the button-festooned matriarch of Prescott Democrats. "Of George Bush!"
Young and old, black and white, Arab and Jew, male and female, feed-corn farmer and real estate developer, even Yankee fan and Red Sox fan -- the multitude of Democrats who have gathered here say they feel more together in spirit and purpose than at any convention in recent times, bound by the proposition that their country, and as well as the world, have never been more divided, and by a belief that President Bush is the reason.