Posted Tuesday, November 4 at 09:29 pm CT by Mike Stuckey
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Rick Graham and Rosemary Irvin wave Obama signs at traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle. (John Brecher / msnbc.com)
On a day they hoped would end in history being made by U.S. voters, Rosemary Irvin and Rick Graham huddled in the chilly air high above
traffic-choked Interstate 5 and made a little history of their own.
Strangers
to each other until they met in the noon hour on an overpass in the
city’s University District, the pair of graying but well-preserved baby
boomers joined forces to take direct political action for the first
time in either of their lives.
Three hours
later, with the setting sun barely peeking through the heavy cloud
cover, they were still waving their blue-and-white Obama-Biden signs
at the passing, often honking, motorists below.
“I never thought I would be standing on an overpass waving a sign,” said Irvin, 57, an attorney.
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Posted Tuesday, November 4 at 04:13 pm CT by Mike Stuckey
Filed under Seattle
Army veteran Edwin "Mac" McAdoo works as a day laborer, seeking jobs outside Home Depot. (John Brecher / mnsbc.com)
A Home Depot parking lot isn’t a typical venue to discuss presidential politics, but this isn’t a typical election, so we stopped by to work the crowd and see what we could find.
Among the scrum of eager day laborers clamoring for work at the North Seattle store on U.S. Highway 99 was Edwin “Mac” McAdoo. Among the shoppers was general contractor Phil Teller.
And as Sen. Barack Obama’s historic but improbable journey has defied conventional political wisdom, McAdoo and Teller defied political stereotypes.
With a mane of blond hair tucked under a Seattle Seahawks cap and a compact, hard-as-nails physique, McAdoo, 50, appears to be a poster boy of the proletariat, the kind of hard-working common man whom trade unions and Democrats take for granted.
But he’s rooting for Republican Sen. John McCain.
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Posted Monday, November 3 at 08:21 pm CT by Mike Stuckey
Filed under Seattle
Bruce Gentry spent 20 years building skyscrapers in downtown Seattle. (John Brecher / msnbc.com)
History seems a foregone conclusion in the Emerald City.
On a cold, dark, damp election eve around Seattle’s downtown Pioneer Square, a handful of sidewalk interviews found little doubt that Sen. Barack Obama would become America’s first black president.
“The Republicans are done,” said a jovial Danny Hawkins, 51, a Seattle barber. “They’ve had their share.”
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Posted Monday, November 3 at 04:46 pm CT by Mike Stuckey
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Law professor Henry McGee Jr. in his office at Seattle University. (John Brecher / msnbc.com)
Watching last-minute polls and analyses, Professor Henry McGee Jr. is
as confident as ever that Sen. Barack Obama will become the first black
president of the United States, but he’s also musing over some ironies
around Tuesday’s historic election.
Chatting at
lunchtime Monday in a campus office festooned with memorabilia from his
own career as a cutting edge African-American in U.S. academia, McGee
pointed to a news story he had just read. Despite predictions of a
sizable Obama victory, “the majority of white folks in the United
States will vote for John McCain,” said McGee. “I had never thought
about that.”
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