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[Patsy Stone]

That's not to say I didn't know there would be hurdles, but I figured that Hillary's negatives were already so high that he'd have a much better chance at bringing in the crossovers to beat the Republicans. He had to sell the Democrats on himself, and that was a tall order since he started so far back, but I knew it was a much easier sell than Hillary trying to attract Republicans and Independents. As far as I could find there was only Wright, Rezko, and the Present votes, and if that was all they had, he was not too bad off to start with. I just had to believe he wouldn't do something crushingly stupid along the way.

I saw he had the Q factor in 2004, so I knew it was possible for him to gain the popularity among Dems, but the Clinton Machine was huge and inevitable in the beginning, plus there were so many others in the race. I figured he had the best chance to beat her, and I just had to believe that America was mostly ready to vote for a man of color.

That's been the hardest part for me, watching the ugliness I had hoped we could avoid as we moved the country forward, but I guess it was inevitable that there would be huge growing pains. Thankfully, however, the fact that the public has decided to stop falling for the same old tricks, and Democrats are turning out in droves, has made up for most of that.