John McCain Sees Dead People in Michigan
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- It's primary day in Michigan, and the law says no campaigning within 100 feet of a polling station.
Republican Sen. John McCain (wearing his lucky green sweater) stopped outside the polls at the Grand Traverse Heritage Center. He stood at a legal distance, trying to catch voters as they came out. The cameras were rolling, reporters had their notebooks out. Its just there weren't many voters around.
But McCain did run into Peg Jonkhoff, who approached him on the snow-covered street and told the senator she owns the funeral home up the street. McCain asked if she'd mind giving him a tour. And so everyone went, the senator, his staff, a press entourage, tromping across the street, over a snow bank and up to Reynolds Jonkhoff Funeral Home and Cremation Services.
It's housed in a sprawling Victorian constructed by Traverse City philanthropist Perry Hannah in the late 19th century. Peg told McCain all about the house, including its 10-plus fireplaces. McCain apologized that all these people tracked snow onto her carpet. So much for hanging out at the polls this morning.
McCain headed from Reynolds Jonkhoff to a campaign rally in town, where he told a crowd he'd just been to a funeral home. "People are dying to get in there," he said. Bad jokes aside, McCain's morning proved fruitful. Republican Peg Jonkhoff had been contemplating voting for either McCain or Mitt Romney. But Jonkhoff says she's now backing her unexpected guest.
-- David Greene
10:38 AM ET | 01-15-2008 | permalink
