the vote, the desperate & the ditch

10 days till election and, here in Ohio, the ground forces are swelling. Beginning tomorrow, The National Democratic Committee staff is dispersing to the Battleground States--and OHIO is on the list. These folks, who depend on home hospitality, will work on get-out-the-vote (door-to-door campaigning), field office support and basically anything that needs doing will be done by the these folks. 

At 3pm on this wall-to-wall-sunshine day, I voted. I didn't give much thought to driving to our County Board of Elections (BOE) UNTIL I got to within about 8 blocks of my destination, and I began to encounter signs that read:

For those readers not that familiar with downtown Cleveland, let me say, it is mighty unusual to have a problem with parking let alone to ever need OVERFLOW parking!! 

 So, naturally, I continued on my way, ignoring the signs.

I kept on driving, cock-sure I could just park in the  BOE's adjacent lot.  As I approached the BOE building and, I see not only no parking in sight, but also that the police have the street blocked...and so, I keep on driving. Finally able to make a legal U-turn, I back tracked and proceeded to follow the parking signs! Now, I'm thinking, WOW! Voting is gonna be jammed! 

Wrong again!

Voting was a breeze. Dozens of very helpful workers and scores of Voting Booths:

Now that I have voted, I will be free to work for the campaign on November 4th. 

DESPERATE? A few days ago, Lisa, my daughter-in-law, sent this photo showing a pre-paid Federal Express envelope along with a pleaful letter from John McCain, written in the most urgent language-for donations to be sent ASAP-in the aforementioned FedEx envelope. FEDEX!!! Isn't that pretty expen$ive??? 

(full disclosure: The mailing was addressed to the former owner of Lisa and Wilton's home!) 

And finally, last week, when Bill Clinton was in Cleveland, he said, that Americans only vote for Democrats when "we're in a ditch". Ditch? Seems to me, we're in waaaay more than a ditch, maybe the Grand Canyon??  If that's the case, maybe we'll soon see the change we so desperately need.

GOBAMA