Obama Feels the Love from NH's Famous Skeptics

[illinoisprogressive]

CONWAY, N.H. -- This is a crowd that is virtually all white. This is the least emotive state in the Union. This is a town that voted decisively for Barry Goldwater in 1964. This is where thousands of people filled the parking lot of Kennett High School in the hope of crowding in to see a black man who is running for president.

This also may be the political phenomenon of the age. Inside the high school, where a banner boasts of 15 state high school boys' skiing championships since 1979, voters of a state where natives like to tell visitors that they can't get there from here are straining -- you can almost see their eyes squinting to will this to come true -- to believe that Barack Obama can go from the gym in Conway to the White House in Washington.

Because this is a place where the phrase mildly enthusiastic means wildly enthusiastic, an outsider has to adjust his perceptions. But by any measure -- and the best one was the way the cars were parked all the way down Main Street -- this was a remarkable turnout. It was a whole lot bigger than the crowd Paul Newman attracted in 1972 when he landed at the little air strip up the road (now long gone) to campaign for Rep. Pete McCloskey, the California liberal Republican who mounted a doomed primary challenge to Richard M. Nixon.

Inside the gym the candidate himself looked awfully young, sounded idealistic, appeared scrawny, seemed a familiar type to New Englanders who have been told for a generation and a half what the young, scrawny and idealistic Jack Kennedy looked like when he ventured north in 1960 to ask New Hampshire to help send him to the White House.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/obama_feels_the_love_from_new.html

[StudentsMustUniteNow]

1. Appearance is everything?

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Inside the gym the candidate himself looked awfully young, sounded idealistic, appeared scrawny, seemed a familiar type to New Englanders who have been told for a generation and a half what the young, scrawny and idealistic Jack Kennedy looked like when he ventured north in 1960 to ask New Hampshire to help send him to the White House."

How about Obama tells us how he'll fix the trade problem, the national debt and job security (as well as placement).

Acting is acting. Governing is something else.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. he has. you are just listening to gop straw men and believing them.

[StudentsMustUniteNow]

3. I am NOT listening to GOP strawmen

That's a cheap shot against me. Check the other thread on "who's more progressive, clinton or obama."

[Ethelk2044]

5. If you want to know what about stands for visit his website

He has his issues posted. Also research his stance when he was in Chicago State Senate. You will be pleasantly surprised.

[mckeown1128]

6. I wish more people would look

into Obama's record. So many critics just call him a empty suit rockstar and write him off. He has great policy ideas.

[retread]

4. In order to govern you have to win elections. We are in the election phase

not the governing phase.