Today's Washington Post has a truly inspiring story about a 52 year-old
California woman, Linnie Frank Bailey, a political neophyte, who last summer gave $10 to Senator Obama and eventually became an elected delegate. Her story is really the story of how this campaign has become a movement.
The Post's Jose Antonio Vargas writes about Bailey's journey:
It all started last summer with a $10 online donation -- her very first political contribution.
With another click of the mouse, 52-year-old Linnie Frank Bailey.... morphed into a campaign volunteer. By fall, she'd taken on the titles of "area coordinator" and "regional field organizer." And by winter, she'd become a field commander of sorts, organizing a 10,000-square-foot presidential campaign office in southern California.
Once again the new technology meets the demands of a new movement:
The mother of two, the middle-class homemaker, the self-described "blogger-on-training-wheels" is now one of California's 166 pledged delegates for Sen. Barack Obama.
"Imagine that!" Bailey says. "Without the Internet, I don't know if I could have gotten this involved."
Bailey is a prime example of the still evolving story of this campaign -- how the Web has enabled everyday people to become engaged in ways that have changed the dynamic of a presidential campaign. And Bailey's just one drop in the ocean of politics.
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Many of us on here have given him money, blogged endlessly here and elsewhere for him, sent emails to everyone and talked him up to everyone we come into contact with. It's great to see someone who has gone the extra mile to fight for her beliefs. She has only given $55.20 to his campaign--she's a working mom and can't afford more--but her value as a campaign volunteer, delegate and as someone who joined social networks online to fight smears such as the muslim smear are priceless.
With women like Mrs. Bailey we will win and elect Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States.