I have been working many hours a day on the Obama campaign in Dallas.

Every day - sometimes every hour - there is a new story that turns everything I thought I knew on its head.

Yesterday, a middle-aged, white man came into the office with his teenage daughter. He was looking for a bumper sticker to put on his car. Volunteering at the front desk, along with me, was a black man in his 70's and a black woman in her 50's. The white man began to talk to us. And he revealed that he was a stalwart in the Republican party but had decided to vote for Barack Obama.

I asked him what had made him make the switch believing that if he articulated his reasoning he would be even more likely to embrace it. And out of his mouth came this:

"I decided that we live in America and it is long past time that we had an African-American President. Think of how proud we could be of America with an African-American President."

This is in Texas from a white, male Republican.

This is a movement, not an election.

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive