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...book, Silent Courage. Yet with a crucial presidential election only days away, Ma, 57, can't afford to waste a single second. Minutes after his train arrives in the city of Taichung, Ma is whisked from the tracks into a waiting car and driven at top speed to Caotun township in Nantou county. Once there, Ma, casually clad in a pinstriped shirt and blue jeans, takes questions informally from an excited group of villagers at the home of a local antique collector. At 10:30, Ma is still telling jokes and talking politics. One giddy, curly-haired woman asks...
Kathleen Hood of Highland Township, for example, began holding house parties for Obama last year and took it upon herself to set up "United for Obama in Chester County" in early February this year. Since her first meeting, the group has grown from seven to 50, all without any contact from the official campaign until the final few days of the month, when some staff began coming into the state. She was able to do it largely by using the campaign website, which has a calendar for local activists to post events and reams of material for organizers...
...debate, he said, "Mom, I like the brown man's name. And he has some ideas that I can understand, too. He would be a good President. I would vote for him." The "brown man," Obama, will get my vote - on behalf of my son. Mary Walter, Chadds Ford Township...
...Dennis Township, N.J. and Kirkland House...
...greeted the results from Tuesday's New Hampshire primary voting with the same attitude: All those votes he was planning on getting? Well, they were just here! As late at 7 p.m. on election night, Jim MacEachern, Romney's Perry Township chair, was predicting a victory. "We've got 'em," he said, referring to the mobbed polling place he spoke from. (Meanwhile, at the McCain headquarters, aides were trying to suppress grins and quietly showing each other exit polls on their BlackBerrys, shading them with their hands so we mere mortals couldn...