mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

>In fj.life.in-japan E.F.Schelby <schelby@swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> My daughter just called me from Pennsylvania and a bus full of
>> New York volunteers returning from Ohio where they had helped the
>> Kerry campaign for the last five days. Yesterday she still canvassed
>> for six hours in driving rains. These young people worked very hard,
>> and it was all in vain. 
>
>So, if you participate in the democratic process, and don't win, it's
>all in vain?

No, of course not. But they felt like it at the moment. The 
campaign helpers were tired, and it is understandable that they
were discouraged during the return trip. They had also witnessed
this and that flaw in the democratic process.

E.