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Election surprises
MHIer— ^ former Cabinet member ict the Beagara
adounisfcration: - has- said that race was^ out ait issue
in this- election. In truth* neither Sen. John IWcCam nor
e#er made reference to Sea, Bai^^ Obamas race was in.
However in Rappahannock County. race stall infectstifemindsofmimy votei^ however tpuetly reserved or unspoken publicly as- it way bo.
Store to the point were responses given,. mostlyprivate. about why a person would vote fer one candidate or the other ami the fact that met# would even bo mentioned: onto,, let alone several tames, is- a sad reflection of ideasand beliefs- that persist in tbe Oici South.
Carolina was not too tar bebami.
On another note. Democrat Anita Hartke - working mostly atone and with, very little money — managed to beat the percentage of the vote that all her prevtousCbngressman
Fnc Cantor ha tact, she did as- well as- Jhdy Ifeder running against incumbent Frank Wolf m the 10th district who bad the bill support of the Democratic party. Fetter also bad &i. S3 million.
Etoartto* received: only $73,8W m campaign wntnbutaonsto Cantors $3.bb million And she still got 3T percent of the vote in the Seventh District. That is- remarkable.
There ace two tessera* here; That the wilt and detc runs nation of a single voice can be heard even without raising millions. No doubt the'Ttemocratic Wave?" carried: Bartto* along the way. But had the party not weiheft her oi£ there migldvery wed bnve been a diJferenfc outcome Thafik the second lesson Despite what may seem tike impotable odds* never giveujfrorwiJQtflidiy concedev lh an otherwise brilliant campaign run. by tjb^Demoerut^leuera^Hurthe on her own and wot giving her the txdi support of the party wait* at mistake.
Ami os- Barack Obama, said boose If "One voice can choree a room, one voice can change a city one voice can change a state, one voice coo change a uafcton and one voice can change tbe world"
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