Berkeley politics: blue on blue
By Marjie Lundstrom | The Sacramento Bee
BERKELEY, Calif. _ Noah Miller is a political activist, a dad and a very shrewd businessman.
The 37-year-old father of three from Alameda has set up shop outside a Bay Area farmers market, selling presidential campaign buttons for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama ($3 each, two for $5).
Whale Watchers for Obama. Campers for Obama. Birders for Obama. Music Lovers Single Home Owners Drummers iMac Users People of Faith Nurses Rednecks Bingo Players for Obama.
This being Berkeley, Miller has it made.
In the Crayola color-box of American politics, if California is a basic "Blue," then the Bay Area county of Alameda including the cities of Berkeley and Oakland is surely a "Midnight Blue." The seventh-most populous county in California, Alameda County has more than 57 percent registered Democrats and about 16 percent Republicans, nearly the widest gulf of any county in the state.
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