Meghan McCain meets with campaign volunteers in Boston

(John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)

Meghan McCain greeted volunteers at the campaign headquarters on Tremont Street.

By Sol Israel, Globe Correspondent

Meghan McCain visited her father's campaign headquarters on Tremont Street in downtown Boston today, taking time off from the road to meet the volunteers.

The visit by the 23-year-old pop-culture aficionado and campaign trail blogger was a source of noticeable excitement for the diverse crowd. Even though most acknowledged US Senator John McCain's poor chances of victory in their traditionally liberal home state, they expressed optimism about their work.

Meghan McCain did not seem fazed by the prospect of visiting a strongly Democratic area like Boston.

"I've been to a lot of quote-unquote Democratic areas," McCain said from a plush leather chair in the Straight Talk Express bus. "I do think there's an interesting idea of headquarters in the middle of very Democratic areas. And that's true for the Obama campaign, their headquarters in very red areas – you still have to have it."

McCain talked about her own political preferences, describing her 2004 vote for Democratic candidate John Kerry as "a personal decision." She also talked pointedly about what she saw as her father's differences from President Bush, a point of heated contention between the McCain and Obama campaigns. She seemed particularly pleased with her father's performance in Wednesday night's presidential debate.

"The title for today's [blog] post is going to be 'I am not President Bush'," she said enthusiastically.

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