“…And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright: tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals — democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.” [...]
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Sarah in the White House Click on random objects to interact with Sarah. Caution: the door can be a little startling the more you open and close it.
This will give you chills. I actually made it home last night by 8:30 after 12 hours. As a dry run for Election Day yesterday went incredibly well. We had an average number of glitches: a last minute change in the precincts we’re covering, no Internet connection, wrong directions to one neighborhood and then a [...]
First, I forgot to mention that Sandy gave me the answer to Tuesday’s question about who first said “an army moves on its stomach”. It was Napoleon which I actually didn’t know until I googled it. There’s some political swag on it’s way to Sandy. Thanks for playing! We had our weekly neighborhood team meeting [...]
Phone calling for GOTV volunteers continues this week. Meanwhile, we’ve lost our staging location so we may be working in the middle of a parking lot on Election Day. Our county had 5 neighborhood teams working the precincts over the past few months. Now that we’re down to the end of the campaign those teams [...]
Nine Days
Posted in Life, politics, Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2008
Yesterday all of our Barack Obama volunteers bailed on us except two (out of 7) so we only managed to canvass one neighborhood. I guess that’s payback for my gloating on Saturday. I was originally concerned that we wouldn’t have enough data packets for all the volunteers so made arrangements to walk a neighborhood for [...]
Over the last month I’ve become involved with volunteering on a neighborhood team for the Barack Obama campaign. What I had thought would be a few hours of canvassing or phone banking has turned into nearly 30 hours a week of meetings, volunteer recruitment, phone banking, canvass working and data entry. It’s been both fun [...]
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