If I can borrow a few minutes of your time, please watch this video of Michelle Obama. She was known on the campaign trail as "The Closer," because for many folks on the fence in the primary election, she was the final bit of umph that pushed them into Barack Obama's camp.
I traveled to Iowa twice in 2007 to get out the vote for Barack Obama, including the final week, after Christmas and over New Years, where we knocked on doors in the snow all day, every day, talking about hope and change, often times in doorways, driveways, and in the kitchens of Iowans I'd never met before.
For many, Michelle Obama made them believe it was all possible. Here she is, three years ago, in August of 2007, talking at a time when the polls looked scary. Barack Obama made a believer out of me, but Michelle kept me believing we could really do it.
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