or "Further Proof That 2008 Is Not 2004", or "The Political Really Is Personal".
This is my girlfriend. I love her to death, but there's always been one sticking point in our relationship- I've been a political junkie since 1996, when I was only 8 years old, and she couldn't give a flip about politics if her life depended on it.
I know this, because reminding her that her life may, in fact, depend on it has absolutely no effect on her, except perhaps making me seem that much more insane.
I'm sure I'm not the only person on DKos that has this problem. I mean, how do you explain, to the completely uninitiated, that you're totally fired up about something you saw on C-SPAN that day?
Exactly how do you say that you'd rather watch the State of the Union and crack jokes with your other geek friends than make out (true story)?
And how did my girlfriend go from total apathy at the political process to traveling with me to a swing state to register voters?
Follow me over the jump for the whole sordid tale.
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