{"id":4708,"date":"2008-09-08T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2008-09-08T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:50:01","slug":"sarah-you-had-me-at-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4708","title":{"rendered":"Sarah, You Had Me At Hello"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Los Angeles Times, an article about the energized John McCain<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He is a feistier candidate with Palin at his side. With his blue shirt sleeves rolled up, he punches out his lines with gusto, railing against the "old, big-spending, do-nothing, me-first, country-second Washington crowd," stabbing the air with his Sharpie marker and thumping the lectern with his fist.<\/p>\n

Aides acknowledge that Palin’s presence has turned McCain into a sharper campaigner, and that is perhaps why she abandoned her plans to return to Alaska this weekend. Instead, she will accompany him for two more days than planned this week.<\/p>\n

Cognizant of the splash their rallies have made on television, the campaign scrapped plans for a visit to a laboratory in Columbia, Mo., today, choosing instead to rally in Lee’s Summit, Mo.<\/p>\n

And McCain, who once struggled to match the ability of his Democratic rival, Barack Obama<\/strong><\/a>, to draw large crowds, is now being flocked by throngs of supporters.<\/p>\n

On the GOP ticket’s first post-convention stop, supporters jammed the streets of Cedarburg, Wis. And in Sterling Heights, Mich., there were more than 7,000 people chanting — not McCain’s name, but "Sa-rah! Sa-rah!"<\/p>\n

Much the same happened later that night in Albuquerque, where a crowd of 6,000 appeared. Dustin Spilsbury, whose 3-year-old daughter was hoisted on his shoulders, summed up his Sarah Palin fever as he watched her work the rope line.<\/p>\n

"I’m ready for her for president — I wish it was switched," said Spilsbury, a 30-year-old auto glass technician who lives with his wife, Shannon, and their two children in nearby Rio Rancho, N.M. "We love her. I just wasn’t going to vote at all, [but] she sold us both."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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