Pennsylvania Heartland

[ewein2412]

"When was the last time a presidential candidate campaigned from a train? Betty Flocken, 91, remembered seeing Wendell Wilkie roll into Lancaster, and she had heard him speak. Mrs. Flocken turned out for Senator Obama, as indeed did thousands of other Pennsylvanians."
                           --Mayhill Fowler in the Huffington Post 

That's my gramma!  And she says that Obama is the first presidential candidate she'd be willing to "go to bat for" since Adlai Stevenson.



Illinois Sen. Barack Obama & Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey at the Lancaster, PA train station over the weekend




my family in the audience... Gramma flanked by her two daughters (my aunts)

GET OUT THERE AND VOTE, all you Pennsylvanians!  I voted three weeks ago, but they probably won't count mine.

Comments

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

YAY GRAMMA!

I actually voted for Hillary back before she got all Shame on You Obama. I'm an Obama convert.

[ewein2412]

gramma swayed my vote.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Go your Gramma!

An ice storm kept me from the polls. I fell over every five feet trying to get there.

[ewein2412]

a darned good reason to have your primary in April.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

She's looking good!

[ewein2412]

she's awesome.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

\o/ !

Your gramma is adorable and awesome.

[ewein2412]

hee hee--I just replied above that she was awesome, before I saw your reply. She is!

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

I saw Ladybird Johnson campaign from the back of a train car in 1964. President Johnson must have been somewhere else being president, not campaigning to stay that way.

[ewein2412]

it doesn't say in the article, but the Willkie visit must have been in 1940.

Lancaster Station is kind of a classic piece of Americana in itself.

[karawynn.livejournal.com]

Your gramma was hands-down the coolest octagenarian I've ever met, before or since. Glad to see she's still chuggin'. :)

[ewein2412]

how lovely to see you here, too!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Eeeee, gramma!

We voooooted. And now I don't want to hear anything about it everrrr again. Lord, but it has brought out the worst in the folks around here.

[ewein2412]

hee, I can't tell from your tone if you are percy or soujin. that is so funny.

I am afraid you will have to endure it all over again in november, my dear!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I am very afraid I am me; there's a reason I'm Percy, clearly. XD

I knowww. But maybe there will be a respite?

Congratulations!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Liz, Congrats on the new book - we shall be purchasing a copy this weekend so we can start reading it! Also, well done on the virtual book launch - it is such a fab idea. Looking forward to seeing you soon.

Love Monique and Gordon xxx