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mamculuna ([personal profile] mamculuna) wrote2008-11-02 07:43 pm

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So Bill has tickets to Obama in Grant Park in Chicago on Election night (along with many thousand others). He wants me to fly up there just for the night (he's coming back here the next day, so I'd come back then too). Trying to decide whether to go or not.

Pro: Exciting historical event, will never happen again. Share it with Bill.

Con: The plane will be late and I won't get to go to the speech--I'll be circling O'Hare. It might not be a night for celebration. It costs way too much. I'll have to leave canvassing in NC at 2 PM to catch the flight. It will be cold and we won't get to watch the returns and won't know what's happening.

Pro: Exciting historical event...

What to do.

[identity profile] kalimeg.livejournal.com 2008-11-03 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
People will be using their phones to cruise the Web -- you will know. Take an earlier flight -- really.

[identity profile] rebekahroxanna.livejournal.com 2008-11-03 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Go. Of course if Obama loses the election because he lost NC because he lost a voter you would have gotten to the polls, you'll be sorry. ;-)

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2008-11-03 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Flip a coin!

[identity profile] altaego.livejournal.com 2008-11-03 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
I think it will be a night for celebration. So if you like that sort of thing it will be a unique event.

[identity profile] bhadrasvapna.livejournal.com 2008-11-03 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Canvasing is hard work. I did it yesterday in Pennsylvania. You worked hard. Now it's Miller Time. I'd go, at least try to go. Then if you don't make it, you'll have a great story to tell. Hopefully, tomorrow will be one of those times where American's go "I remember where I was when." Hopefully, community organizers will win the day.

Hopefully.

I want Obama to win. I want hope to win. But most of all, I want all the work that the volunteers put in to matter.