Sunday afternoon my girlfriend and I went to our minor league baseball stadium to a Joe Biden Rally. The doors opened at noon, but it didn't start until 2, so we went just before 2. My friend has plantar fasciitis and can't stand for long - so we figured we'd take our chances and go late so we'd miss the line.
Even at 2 o'clock, the line was around the parking lot and up the next block - amazing! We took cuts in line (because we couldn't find the end!) and walked steadily to the stadium. We were able to find seats out in right field and knew we were going to be looking at his back while he spoke - oh well
We felt fortunate to even have a place to sit. They said it was the biggest crowd (estimated 12,000) that Biden has had at a rally.
Our US senators, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray spoke, and our governor, Christine Gregoir, (who is up for re-election) spoke and introduced Joe Biden.
Ironically our baseball stadium is called "Cheney Stadium" and he thanked the crowd for changing the name to the "Obama Biden Stadium" for him, "because if it was 'Cheney' stadium, it would be in an undisclosed location and we would never find it" - haha
He gave a great speech - very inspiring.
Afterwards, as we were walking with crowds out of the stadium, my girlfriend and I were talking and I mentioned that my dh actually voted for Reagan back in the day - and now he's embarrassed about that.
A man came up next to us and said "Did I hear correctly that you voted for Reagan?"
I laughed and said that my husband had, but now he's the staunchest liberal you'd ever want to meet - and besides, I voted for Jimmy Carter and cancelled his vote
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Hubby tells me they are ahead in the polls now
, but I hope that won't keep people at home instead of out voting.