"But by the time she received a fund-raising letter last month from the Democratic National Committee, a sense of disappointment had set in. She returned the solicitation with a handwritten note, saying, 'Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.'
"'I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,' Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.
"'I really thought there would be immediate change,' she said. 'Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it’s politics as usual, and that’s what I voted against.'"
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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