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"   During an interminable layover in the Tampa airport last Friday, I previewed Run Granny Run, a documentary that premieres on HBO this Thursday night. The film follows Doris Haddock, better known as &amp;quot;Granny D,&amp;quot; who in 2004\u2013at age 94\u2013decides to run for U.S. Senate.  Granny D first became politically active in 1999, when she walked from California to New Hampshire to rally for campaign finance reform. Then, in 2004, when the New Hampshire Democratic Party found itself without a candidate for a Senate seat, Granny D threw her hat into the ring\u2013taking off in a van painted with campaign slogans, walking across the state and calling herself &amp;quot;the angry grandmother of the New Hampshire family.&amp;quot; The film shows the circus that is New Hampshire politics in the summer, with parades, patriotic costumes and marching bands. And it follows Granny D&amp;#039;s struggle to keep her campaign afloat financially\u2013she declined to take money from special interest or political groups\u2013and the resistance that she faced even from members of her political party. Though she lost the election with only 34 percent of the vote (three times what naysayers predicted), she obviously won the hearts of a lot of people in her home state and forced her opponent to talk about the issues she cared about. Whatever side of the political spectrum you fall on (and Granny D is pretty liberal), I think you&amp;#039;ll admire her for getting out there and taking a stand. Maybe she&amp;#039;ll even inspire you to do a little agitating in your community. As she says, &amp;quot;Democracy is not something we have but something we do.&amp;quot; Click here to watch a promo.\u2013Jennifer Conrad What do you do to be politically active? And what cause do you wish politicians would pay more attention to? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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