Can Obama win again? Yes he can! Out of America special: In the linchpin state of Virginia,
Can Obama win again? Yes he can!
Out of America special: In the linchpin state of Virginia, Democrats once more believe – and not just because of Romney
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/can-obama-win-again-yes-he-can-8165832.html
Rupert Cornwell
Sunday 23 September 2012
Where better right now than Washington DC to savour the joys of baseball? On Thursday evening, our once woeful Nationals became the capital's first major league team to clinch a place in the play-offs since 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt had been barely seven months in the White House, and the hometown Senators ultimately lost the World Series to the New York (now San Francisco) Giants.
The morning after was glorious, too, and here at the stadium of the Potomac Nationals, the franchise's minor league affiliate in suburban Virginia, the visitor was FDR's distant successor. Fêting him were some 12,000 exuberant supporters, not a few of them sporting scarlet Nats caps, chanting: "Four more years, four more years". Ah, Barack Obama grinned as he bounded to the microphone: "Sunshine, a nice little breeze in the air – it feels good to be at the ball park."
