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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:00 PM Oct 2016

Best Button I saw today at the at least 14 000 folks rally with Hillary and Michelle

RNC
GOP
WTF

The crowd in Winston-Salem NC was energized. Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama were a wondrous team to witness.
There was no heckling, no demonstrating.

I saw ONE person with a TRUMP shirt. About 28 / male / strong / handsome.
I said to him: “Are there more of you?” —he smiled and said “I hope so”. I smiled back “I don’t, but welcome anyway”.







And Deborah Ross, our hope for a new Senator to unseat Richard Burr



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Best Button I saw today at the at least 14 000 folks rally with Hillary and Michelle (Original Post) Mira Oct 2016 OP
Those are GREAT photos, my dear Mira! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2016 #1
Being there was such an honor Mira Oct 2016 #2
You had a GREAT view to photograph from ! dixiegrrrrl Oct 2016 #4
Your photos are amazing. blm Oct 2016 #3
How fun for you! mnhtnbb Oct 2016 #5
That's making me happy to read Mira Oct 2016 #12
I think I see 8-10 secret service guys around Michelle and Hillary. Ruth Bonner Oct 2016 #6
It was chilling Mira Oct 2016 #10
I am glad to see that the Secret Service is in overdrive. NBachers Oct 2016 #13
What the heck happened after 17 Oct ? eppur_se_muova Oct 2016 #7
I'm quoting a friend of mine who is a big knowledgable Mira Oct 2016 #8
The negative commercials from Burr have been really, really bad mnhtnbb Oct 2016 #16
WOW! Lucky you! Thanks for sharing these photos with us! Maru Kitteh Oct 2016 #9
I'm hoping the Democrats capture that seat from the Republicans. kentuck Oct 2016 #11
KNR Thank you! Lucinda Oct 2016 #14
What an absolutely pitch-perfect response! n/t Stonepounder Oct 2016 #15
No beating up of one another ailsagirl Oct 2016 #18

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,525 posts)
1. Those are GREAT photos, my dear Mira!
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:05 PM
Oct 2016

Really nice, and oh so historical!

I'd love to see Hillary carry NC.



Mira

(22,380 posts)
2. Being there was such an honor
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:11 PM
Oct 2016

It was a feast for the power of women rising to the surface and beginning to bubble undisturbed. It will be a once in a lifetime memory.
Went home and watched "Michael Moore in Trumpland" (itune) one more time

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
4. You had a GREAT view to photograph from !
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:17 PM
Oct 2016

Who was the woman with her arms up in the last pic???

I watched Trumpland and was in awe of Moore's skill in holding such a diverse crowd in the palm of his hand.

blm

(113,013 posts)
3. Your photos are amazing.
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:15 PM
Oct 2016

I've been posting threads urging blue state DUers to donate to Deborah Ross's senate campaign. Her win would mean a Democratic majority in Senate.

GOPs are working overtime now to protect Burr.

mnhtnbb

(31,374 posts)
5. How fun for you!
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:18 PM
Oct 2016

I went to see Michelle when she came to Chapel Hill four years ago. She's really dynamite in person.

My youngest son--the grad student at Yale--flew home today for Halloween weekend and on the way home from picking him up at the airport we stopped
to early vote! He was going to send an absentee ballot but decided since he was making the surprise trip he'd vote in person.

Two more ballots for Hillary, Cooper, and Ross today.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
12. That's making me happy to read
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 11:08 PM
Oct 2016

I signed up for many hours of working at the early polling places in the next few days. I myself have this weird MO of wanting to vote on the actual day, and if sick, I would just crawl there.
Just between us, Hillary had thunderous applause. But every single time when it was appropriate, our first lady had applause that was thunder squared.
She is one loved human being.
I had a few black women behind me and they thought they were in church. I have their loud and loving comments, and "amens" on my videos, and love having caught that. But I don't know how to post a video.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
10. It was chilling
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:59 PM
Oct 2016

The secret service detail came in at one point before the dignitaries entry in large numbers. The ones you see are the super trained ones who look like normal people. LOL. The ones I'm referring to have vests that say "Secret Service", are visibly heavily armed and line the stairways as if we were at a Nation of Islam gathering.
I was so taken aback, and so very grateful at the same time.
Real is real, and this is America.

NBachers

(17,081 posts)
13. I am glad to see that the Secret Service is in overdrive.
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 11:21 PM
Oct 2016

Looking now at the pictures - these agents mean business. Good

eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)
7. What the heck happened after 17 Oct ?
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:49 PM
Oct 2016

Ross looked like she was really climbing in the polls up until then.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
8. I'm quoting a friend of mine who is a big knowledgable
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:54 PM
Oct 2016

with local Democrats "Lots of dirty bad money has come in from the RNC" to support Burr.

mnhtnbb

(31,374 posts)
16. The negative commercials from Burr have been really, really bad
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 09:04 AM
Oct 2016

against Ross, primarily variations on her opposing the sex offenders registry.

They couldn't be farther from the truth.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article104414186.html

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