My wife hardly follows politics at all, and gets her news from Yahoo, yet when Sarah Palin announced that she wasn't going to seek the GOP nomination, my wife fell into a blue funk that was so severe, it surprised me.
It was so deep, that the mere mention of the 2012 race could put her on an emotional roller coaster that brought actual tears. That's how invested she was in Sarah's potential candidacy.
A few days back, she asked me about the news she was seeing about a possible brokered Republican convention. She wanted to know how it worked, and whether that meant that Palin could possibly nominated that way. I quickly brought her up to speed on that, and the whole 'Palin earthquake movement'.
As I talked, I could see her skipping over all of the details and snagging the high points, but I'll tell you what. That blue funk she had has disappeared. The woman actually has some hope again.
Sounds very refreshing for you and her both :)
I Hope and Pray that this works out ;)