Last weekend, students from numerous colleges around the Bay Area spent their weekend as many of us often hope to—at a music festival packed with great artists. These students, however, were not there to listen to musicians, but to make their own voices heard. A small group of students from UCSC, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Evergreen Valley College spent their last Saturday and Sunday in the middle of San Francisco Bay, where they offered anyone entering the Treasure Island Music Festival campaign literature and good conversation. They spoke with people who were both enthusiastic about current political goings-on and Senator Obama, and those that were simply struck by curiosity. Andrea San Miguel described some particularly rewarding moments: "When people were sitting to the side, probably waiting for a friend and just watching the group of us, and after a while came up and said 'Yeah, I'll take one' and sat and read the whole thing, as though our energy was creating an interest they wouldn't have had otherwise." Andrea described the very source of such energy when asked by one particularly interested festivalgoer why she was voting for Senator Obama and not other Democratic frontrunners like Hillary Clinton or John Edwards. She replied, "His life experience makes him a diplomat like our generation has never seen…everyone can find something about Obama that they personally connect with, so that most of the time even people who would never vote for him, at least respect him."
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