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Published March 17, 2008 10:52 am - The messages stirring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns have inspired local citizens to get active in the presidential election process. On the ground in Indiana As primary nears, locals get active in presidential campaigns By Mark Bennett THE TRIBUNE STAR (TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The ball cap turned Sam Cargile into a magnet. A thousand miles from home, he had complete strangers approaching him in the terminal at Atlanta International, wanting to talk. “It was just a remarkable response I was getting on the plane and in the airport,” Cargile said of that moment a few months ago. The phrase emblazoned across his cap read: “Barack Obama for President.” Some presumed Cargile was employed by the Obama campaign, though he isn’t. One woman told Cargile, “I really don’t get involved in politics, but what can I do to help?” Her statement sums up the situation for Cargile and millions of other Americans. The 61-year-old Terre Haute resident has plenty beyond political engagement to keep him busy. Cargile travels the country in his role as director of grant making for the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation, an independent group focused on bolstering higher education opportunities. In each destination, Cargile picks up the local newspapers. As the presidential campaign intensified in 2007, he read more and more about a U.S. senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. Intrigued, Cargile and his wife, Diane, traveled to Springfield, Ill., to hear Obama speak. Shortly afterward, Cargile found himself in a lively discussion on politics with friends in a New York City restaurant. Cargile suspected Obama’s then-fledgling campaign could surge. “We agreed to disagree,” he recalled of that dinner debate. “I just had a feeling, an intuition. I heard something in his message that this is a point in time.” 
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