smacky and bucky

As I write this (7:30 pm, Wednesday night), Barack Obama is speaking in Lynchburg, Virginia, the small town where I was born, raised, and ultimately escaped (no offense, Lynchburg!). Virginia has voted for a republican president in 12 of the last 13 presidential elections, but this year there's a real chance for the state to go for a democrat. (Also in the picture, Senator Jim Webb, former republican that had enough of the bullshit and ran as a democrat!)