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Portsmouth, NH — When Andy Coleman was in college at the University of Kansas, he owned a party bus, an old 1969 Dodge, with his friends. Every year they’d drive it down to Mardi Gras or to Florida for Spring Break, doing what college kids do, drinking, having fun, carrying on.

After graduation, and after his roommate got married, Coleman took the bus home to New Jersey. He parked it in his yard and it stayed there, more or less, for years, until 2004, when George W. Bush ran for reelection against John Kerry.

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“I disliked Bush so much, I said to my wife, girlfriend at the time, ‘Should we use the bus somehow to help the campaign?'” Coleman said. And so they did. They painted it red, white and blue, and took it on the road, canvassing for Kerry with a group of volunteers.

Coleman has been driving busses around America for progressive causes ever since. He eventually retired the original Dodge, dubbed The Bus For Change. A new, larger vehicle — The Bus For Progress — took its place.