It is raining on Election Day in Alexandria.
 
David Allen, James Gleckner and David Lee are all members of the Yale Class of 2010 and are following a Google map to East Duncan Street in Del Ray, ground zero for Barack Obama’s statewide campaign.

“What are we doing here?” asks Allen, who arrived Sunday to phone bank and hang door signs for the Obama campaign. “Ask if they voted,” Lee offers. “Tell them where to vote,” adds Gleckner. They joke around, do guy things.

Lee, Gleckner and Allen are political newbies.They did not take the semester off to work for a political campaign. Their trip to Alexandria to work for the Democratic presidential nominee was not at the behest of the Yale College Democrats or Republicans. The three are Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers, and they drove down here together after a fraternity event.

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