"My Lord, I feel something is happening"

Volunteering for an inspired Obama campaign in Pittsburgh, I couldn't help feeling that politics is being reinvented.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- I am sitting at a call table at a Barack Obama campaign office with churchgoing black ladies. We are in East Liberty, a black neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The office sits on the same block as the county assistance center and a liquor store. Out on the street, old men are drinking out of paper bags and young kids are hanging out on the corner, watching a steady stream of volunteers with clipboards and Obama signs pour in and out of the ... Full Story »

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by Fabrice Florin - Nov. 4, 2008

A moving personal account from an Obama volunteer reporting from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He shares his own experience as a canvasser, working with a diverse community from all walks of life -- and his epiphany at a political rally, where he felt more connected than ever, and truly proud to be an American.

It does seem like a dream to see a black man speaking in front of such a wide cross section of America. “Our opponent says that there is a real America,” Obama ... More »

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