Archive for November 4th, 2008
My Volunteer Greeter at a Polling Place Experience
Oh Wowza! I just spent 3.5 hours standing at Shipley Manor polling place arguing with 2 Clatworthy supporters. Apparently they were from Newark Delaware and they go to Church with John at the Church across the parking lot from the Central Branch YMCA. We agreed on 2 things. Castle is horrible and there should be […]
Tom Carper Gets My Vote
…for biggest idiot of the day. If KHN holds Castle to 55% (which looks likely if you can judge by Allan Loudell’s poll side interviews) then Tom Carper’s decision to stop John Carney from running against Castle is going to look very bad indeed. Consider…KHN will have gotten 45% of the vote having spent NOTHING!!! […]
Voting: A Learned Behavior
My parents always took me to the polls when they voted. Some of my earliest memories are of helping my mom and/or dad pull the levers when they used to have the old time machines. All I can remember thinking is, like all children watching their older people do something they can not yet do, “I […]
Get Out There and Change the World
Vote. I don’t care who you are voting for, but you must vote. Too many people have died for the right to vote. Too many people have suffered for your right to vote. And too many treat the right to vote like a coupon they may or may not use. And no, I don’t buy […]
UPDATE: Election Day Tales — Mid-Day
More tales from polling places and campaign offices should be posted here. What are you seeing and hearing? And if you’ve been working this morning, tell us what it has been like working this historic GOTV effort. If you have pictures (or very short video) send that to me or Pandora or nemski and we’ll […]
Take a breath… and look at what we’ve done
I don’t know who will win on today, but I wanted to take a moment and acknowledge what we have done. I feel honored to be part of this movement, and feel sorry for those on the sidelines who can only sneer and mock or slander and smear while offering no solutions to the problems […]
Out of Business
When we close the books on this election, it will be written that the McCain-Palin campaign was one of the worst run presidential campaigns in all history. Worst than Dole in 1996. Worse than Dukakis in 1988. Worse than McGovern in 1972. And it will be written that the Obama-Biden campaign was probably the most […]
Tomorrow’s NJ Headline Today
“Feral Child” GOP Campaign Contributes to Straight Ticket Voting It has been shocking how bad the DE GOP has been. No coherent message, no ideas, only bile and vitriol. It is as if they copied the McCain playbook.
Election Day Stories — Morning
So here it is — the day we’ve been arguing over, sweating out and working our butts off for. Did you vote today? Did you see any voting places on the way into work? Did you spend time greeting voters at a polling place or calling voters? Tell us what you see or hear this […]
Election Day
Comment Rescue: This evening, while I was still at work, my wife called to ask me about my recent conversations with my young children about race and politics. Dear Daughter had told wife at dinner that she announced in her kindergarten class during their “mock election” she was voting for Obama. (It is noteworthy that […]
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