So I'm in the local licquor store buying a pint of Jim Beam. The guy ringing up the sale -- a black fellow in his mid-to-late twenties -- sees the Kerry button on my lapel.
"I can't wait," he says, "till the election." He can't wait for the election to vote GWB out.
It's not just the political types that are fired up. It's the whole country. I've never seen stuff like this. It gives me so much hope.