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ALL MEMBERS »I took my daughter to my precinct caucus this afternoon. Four years ago, it never would have occurred to me. But this year, something was different. As I reflect back on what got me into a church on Queen Anne Hill on a Saturday afternoon with hundreds of other people, I realize it was my fellow moms. They got the idea into my head and then wouldn't let me forget it. They practically led me there.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWIt's not the youth who are speaking today in Ballard, but citizens there are speaking loudly for Sen. Barack Obama. The crowd at Calvary Lutheran in Seattle was mainly the over-30 set, representative of this neighborhood of single-family homes. The pews were packed; Calvary Lutheran — which a neighbor told me is going "belly up" — probably hasn't seen this much action since the 1950s. One woman I spoke with said that in 2004, the caucus was "a few people sitting at a cafeteria table." Today there was no parking to be had, but most folks walked. As I headed down there around 12:45 p.m., I found the sidewalks filled with my neighbors.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWI got a sense of just how crowded today's Democratic Caucus would be when I stood outside Laurelhurst School and got that unmistakeable whiff of humidity from too many people in a room too small. Two generations ago, this neighborhood sat around and listened to a young Dan Evans make his pitch for the state House. Years later, this neighborhood was re-assigned from the 43rd District to the 46th District and, along with all of Seattle, its politics moved overwhelmingly into the Democratic camp.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAt precisely 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, a TV viewer with picture-in-picture options could watch simultaneous broadcasts featuring perhaps the two most famous American blonde women with Ivy League connections. NorthWest Cable News had Hillary Clinton (Yale Law) speaking to a campaign crowd in Tacoma. Sibling station KING-TV (5), meanwhile, welcomed Paris Hilton, a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Hilton's Ivy League claim? Just two days earlier, she'd been pegged Woman of the Year by the Harvard Lampoon and her visit to the hub of higher learning included a frat party and other fun stuff. "Harvard is hot," Hilton observed, and who would know better?
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