Today is Election Day 2012. My campaign photography assignments for this election began on August 13, 2011. That was 451 days ago. In the past 16 months, I have spent time with every serious candidate of both major parties in the race to the office for President of the United States (POTUS). If the polls are to be believed, the United States are a very deeply divided nation.
Edith Childs | ©2012 David Allio for Corbis
President Barack Obama closed his campaign last night in Iowa with a story about city councilwoman Edith Childs and his first visit to Greenwood, South Carolina. At that point in the 2008 campaign, Obama was virtually unknown in a big field of potential candidates. It was Edith Childs that gave voice to the Obama campaign chant of: “Fired Up! Ready to Go!”
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“It shows you what one voice can do,” Obama says. “One voice can change a room. And if a voice can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world. So I’ve just got one question for you: Are you fired up and are you ready to go?”
Fired Up! Ready to Go!
Fired Up! Ready to Go!
Fired Up! Ready to Go!
Fired Up! Ready to Go!
“Let’s go change the world.”
Now use your voice and go vote!
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