One vote won..for the children

I was out by the pool at my condo complex on a sunny 80 degree Florida day (just to rub it in a little to all of those in the War of Northern Aggression states) and struck up a conversation with a woman sitting nearby. We talked a while about the usual things you talk about with a stranger by the pool when the subject came to politics. She asked me who I was voting for and I hesitated to reply, not wanting to turn a pleasant conversation into something ugly on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. She said it's ok and that she hasn't decided yet. I realized the opportunity to win a vote in a state where every vote counts and began a polite discourse on the reasons for voting for Obama.
More after the continental crossing...