I Just Returned

from a townhall meeting at the Carpenters Union Hall. Elizabeth Edwards was there to talk a little bit about her husband's campaign and to answer questions from the audience. I'd say 100 or so people were there, and as I've mentioned many times, she knows her stuff. She answered questions about health care, unions and outsourcing, and also about the Iraq War, among other issues.

I especially liked her answer about voting machines. She and her husband are committed to fair elections and recognized there were lots and lots of problems in the elections of 2000 and 2004. She wants to see a paper ballot system like there is in North Carolina.

And she noted, and I want to note, her husband would win not by narrow margins, but by substantial margins, and he would be competitive everywhere in the country. That is probably the biggest argument in favor of his candidacy over anybody else running (with perhaps an exception being Joe Biden). Not only that, but he would help downticket on so many state races and ballot measures.

I got her autograph, which I will be posting a picture of it here shortly, and told her I was committed to getting him elected. She looked good, too, considering her current health problems. She is spending the night in Reno, and then she is leaving at about 6:30 tomorrow morning.