Vanessa Kerry Brings Youthful Perspective to Campaign

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By Sean Gandert, Albuquerque High School Class of 004

Vanessa Kerry is relaxing over a soda on the train ride from Albuquerque to Gallup on Sunday. Unlike most of the John Kerry campaigners, she has just boarded two hours ago and is still upright and focused, while everybody else in the car seems tired from the endless work of a presidential campaign.

But this doesn't do justice to the work she's done so far to support her father. Vanessa has spent months working on his campaign, much of it without him by her side, as she tries to rally younger voters to their cause. During the down time between flurries of speeches and flag-waving, she is at work with a folder lying in front of her, and a five-minute interview about growing up with John Kerry for a dad. ...