How Obama Rolls
Lima is a 21-year-old Brooklyn native majoring in journalism at Baruch College in New York. She is Latina. She’s a registered Democrat–and no relation to the Brazilian supermodel of the same name. Next November Lima will cast her first vote for president. She might vote in the New York Democratic primary on Feb. 5, too. Barack Obama really wants Lima’s vote. In fact, he wants it–and the votes of her 18- to 29-year-old peers–so badly that on Thursday evening, after enduring New York’s arduous permit process and dispatching volunteers with tickets to Lima’s college (and other campuses in New York), Obama closed off Washington Square Park, 9....