Over the past year, at various moments, I have been in the shoes of a rural Iowan listening to his stump speech for the first time, a southern Republican looking beyond party color and a single mom from New Jersey longing to hear a healthcare plan. I have been a cynical, know-it-all Princeton undergrad as I watched him play My Little Pony with his 6-year-old, laugh it up with his aides, listen to lectures from his senior strategist, shake countless hands, miss his wife and never yell. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., one of his debate-prep coaches told me I was spoiled: "Don't get the wrong idea about politics. Never again will you work for a campaign so honest, so positive, so reasonable."
So I quit my high-and-mighty attitude. The campaign trail did much more than alleviate my anxiety that Obama was too good to be true. The campaign trail showed me why America votes for Obama. He represents a new generation of politics, a new way to achieve the progressive politics Democrats have coalesced around. Go look him up, scour the internet and narrow your eyes at him during the debates. You don't need to be a staffer for his campaign. You can be a member of any party from anywhere, USA, you can be an arrogant scholar, you can even be an apathetic cynic, and all you need is to listen to him. We all hear the same thing: "Change we can believe in."
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