Subject: [big campaign] 2 people at McCain "watch party" at MI HQ
From: "Adam Jentleson" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:16:06 -0400
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McCain's many fans probably loved his speech to the Republican National
Convention, but they did so in some place other than the Farmington
Hills McCain headquarters, where the crowd at a "house party" to watch
the speech dwindled to two volunteers and a handful of staffers too busy
to watch TV by the time he got under way just after 10 p.m.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809050449

LOCAL REACTION

Fans of GOP gather quietly
Campaign volunteers energized by McCain's speech, choice of Palin

BY DAWSON BELL * FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER * September 5, 2008

Michigan Republicans tried to organize parties to watch John McCain's
speech but at least the two the Free Press visited Thursday turned out
to be pretty intimate affairs.

McCain's many fans probably loved his speech to the Republican National
Convention, but they did so in some place other than the Farmington
Hills McCain headquarters, where the crowd at a "house party" to watch
the speech dwindled to two volunteers and a handful of staffers too busy
to watch TV by the time he got under way just after 10 p.m.

Of course lots of Oakland County Republican activists were witnessing
the speech in person in St. Paul. Others were at house parties in real
houses rather than the headquarters office building on Northwestern
Highway, a space cluttered with cubicles and hand-painted signs ready
for today's McCain-Palin rally in Sterling Heights.

The office space did come alive briefly when McCain, in his first
reference to ordinary Americans, cited the struggles of a Farmington
Hills couple, Bill and Sue Nebe, who are volunteers at the center.

Two stalwarts did watch the speech -- Adam Rose, 28, of Royal Oak, and
Linda Marie, 53, of Farmington Hills. Marie worked on signs while she
watched the speech. Rose was waiting for an assignment. An information
technology employee at Chrysler in Auburn Hills, he showed up to
volunteer for the first time Thursday, saying he had been energized by
vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's speech the night
before.

"I think it's been a really good speech," Rose said. "He's a class act.
He's a strong character."

In Fraser, a group of young volunteers worked the phones at a satellite
Macomb County McCain campaign headquarters.

Most said they liked the speech and supported McCain's choice of Palin
as vice president.

Jim Arapostathis, 21, a political science major at Oakland University,
had one criticism:

"I wish he were more conservative," he said.

But overall, Arapostathis praised McCain, saying he fears Barack Obama
will destroy the country.

"McCain is pro-America and I like that," he said.

Christine McCoy, 42, a freelance florist from Ira Township in St. Clair
County, has a 24-year-old son serving in the military. McCoy said the
speech moved her.

"I loved the message of his quiet strength and for what he does believe
in. He goes with discourse, doesn't pander, doesn't say what you want to
hear. He says what he believes in."

Special writer Kimberly Lifton contributed to this report.

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Adam Jentleson
Communications Director
The Hyde Park Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund
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