So Friday evening, I came home, fed the dog, lit candles, and lighted out for the Cherry Creek Homeowners' Association wine tasting. Parked the car someplace less likely to get a ticket for staying parked over Shabbat, and headed over to the Bank Farthest Away From Where I Live.
It was a fun event, even though I could have neither wine nor chocolate, enjoyed meeting people, most of whom don't make nearly enough for Diana DeGette to think they need to worry about capital gains or dividends.
Did I say Diana DeGette? She was actually there, and we had a pleasant conversation, a little about our respective races, and then some about the gold standard. She seemed like a genuinely pleasant person, although for some reason she expected me to disagree with McCain's assessment that Obama's a socialist. Someone please name one Obama policy that any left-wing party in Europe would disagree with. If you can find any left-wing parties in Europe still in power, that is.
(Side note: a promo for Life on Mars, wherein someone from our decade gets the joyous experience of reliving the 70s, apparently to teach all of us how far we've come since then. And yet, how far we have left to go.)
And today, it was walk walk walk. Which, on a torn calf muscle, I gotta tell ya, was just great fun. I walked home Friday night, and probably aggravated some mis-step I made when looking at the walking list instead of the sidewalk.
It's funny how much you remember from when you walked the neighborhood the first time, in the primary. I'm meeting Independent voters and reminding Republicans, and I remember a surprising number of people I met the first time through. Often it's the name, often it's the house, and sometimes it's a combination of both. It's almost always someone I had an actual conversation with, and I can frequently remember the question they asked me that started it off.
You wouldn't think that, meeting literally thousands of voters and constituents, any one would stick in your mind like that, but they do. So I guess there are lessons here for both candidates and constituents. if you want to be remembered, ask questions. And if you want to get elected, pay attention.
