I have been a New Yorker in Pennsylvania for 6 days, working at the Lancaster Obama HQ GOTV team. Dinner with my daughter in Lancaster tonight:
Tonight, the good news from Zogby: www.zogby.com.
The surveys were conducted from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2. Sample sizes in each state ranged from 600-605, with a margin of error of +/-4.1%.
Here are the states where Obama leads, with each state's Electoral votes shown:
Pennsylvania (21) Nov. 2
Obama 53.7%
McCain 40.0%
Other/Not Sure 6.3%
Just amazing.
So, I left the field office in the mid afternoon, assignments were complete, plenty of volunteers, and I was out of clean clothes..interim period...My daughter, a sophomore an F&M here in Lancaster, and her boyfriend accepted my invitation to dinner, where we passed the time in the normal way in the restaurant, talking about everything..
We later went off to another place for desert, and the time it took to stand and order, find a seat and so forth, seemed to loosen up my mind. We all sat down, and looking at these two 20 year old, first time voters, I said that I had seen the innaugaration of President Eisenhower. In fact, seeing the televised Parade and Innaugaration with the former President Truman and the new President Eisenhower seemed to clue me in at an early age the importance of these people, Presidents. I told them that working for Obama was for me an obligation I could not refuse. That Obama was more prepared, more descriptive, more connected than any presidential candidate I had seen in those over 50 years. No candidate had tread the high road as has Obama, none has based his battle strategy on the golden rule as has Obama. After all, we are all Americans, we are all neighbors. This is a campaign typology we will not see again, and at such an opportune time. I expect great things from this man Obama, I may not always agree, but I will know i have been sincerely listened to.