My encouraging news for the day!!

[Parker CA]

Two bits of news that got me excited today that the trend is spreading.

My mother works in a hospital in the Bay Area. One of her coworkers is married to a career military spouse, both moved here from Alabama a few years ago. They always voted Repub and had planned on voting for McLiar. A couple weeks ago they began to change their minds, and today at work my mother showed them a picture of the rally in St. Louis. The coworker told her that they had talked and are both now fully behind Obama/Biden and proudly voting for them on the 4th!! Another couple converts.

I'm in the wine business. I follow a number of online wine blogs quite closely. One of them, although politics is not an accepted theme of conversation, recently had a poll worded in a clever manner that asked people who they would select given the chance, the "younger wine" or the "older wine." This is a blog and forum that is packed with Repubs who start conversations quite frequently that get shut down due to the political content, but this poll slipped through. We're all wine lovers, so I put the political views aside when we're discussing vino, but the poll shocked me when I looked at it a bit ago. 70% - 30% "young wine" vs. "old wine." This is shocking coming from this forum. Many people commented about how they used to be for the "old wine," but that they just didn't like the flavor any longer, and feel the "young," fresh, wine is the only way to go.

Sounds odd to reference a wine forum in here, but this is seriously a big thing. Many of the people who contribute there are big money, top 1-2%er's who, based on previous conversations and comments gave me the sense they would never select the "young wine" out of the two this vintage.

Totally made my day! Also, in the last day, there are six new Obama/Biden yard signs on my street. I'm in a pretty conservative neighborhood in the Bay Area and I haven't yet seen one McLiar/Moose sign!!

17 days to go. We're gonna do this!!!

OBAMA/BIDEN '08/'12

[merh]

1. LOL, the old wine is bitter, close to a vinegar by now.

the young wine is fresh, exciting.

thanks for sharing and welcome to DU :hi:

[Parker CA]

3. HA! Yes, bitter, as well as oxizided, cooked, and way past it's drinking window!! n/t.

[Tumbulu]

2. Great post

My dentist this last week shared with me this bit of good news. She had been planning on voting for McSame, but once Palin was chosen, she had to chose Obama. My dentist has voted republican in the past.