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While reading current political events from The Washington Post newspaper online, I found an interesting article titled, “Obama Backers from D.C. Go West: Volunteers Target Voters in Winchester.” This article jumps out at me is because it is involving Barack Obama and takes place close to our area, besides, the few others I read about John McCain seemed boring to me. The story in this article takes place in Virginia, where almost 300 people carpooling in cars, vans, and buses, traveled from Washington D.C. to areas west and south such as Leesburg, Manassas, Centreville, Woodbridge, Winchester, and Fredericksburg, to recruit Obama voters. The diverse group of Democratic volunteers, including teachers, students, teenagers, lawyers, etc., knocked on over 80,000 doors, facing much rejection but also many who were interested in learning more about the Barack Obama Campaign. I think these volunteers were definitely challenging themselves, since the state of Virginia has not voted Democratic in a presidential election in over 40 years. I also think it is great to have such a large crowd that is willing to take time out of their daily lives, to put forth such an effort to raise votes for Barack Obama. Voicing their opinion on such a major event in our history and for the future shows others that political activism does not just involve donating money, for example. This article was great to post because it may increase the efforts of those who may be afraid to go out and campaign for Obama and it has a chance of increasing the votes for the Democratic Party.