President Barack Obama has, as discussed before and elsewhere, built up a huge list of supporters who want to engage with him. Now, we’re finally seeing how he’s going to use it on the good side. As you may remember from earlier posts, I’m signed up with the Obama database as living in Alexandria, VA [...]
February 26th, 2009 at
16:32 in
Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags:
barack obama,
carrot,
carrot and stick,
communications,
congressman,
james moran,
jim webb,
mark warner,
mitch stewart,
obama for america,
organizing for america,
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spending,
stick,
stimulus,
virginia |
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Steve found this in a shop in Northern Virginia yesterday: At €15, that’s pretty cheap too! You can only imagine what an Irish shop would charge for that. In other news, Steve is going to be standing beside Barack when he takes the oath of office. The bastard (Steve, not Barack – we’ll give Barack [...]
January 19th, 2009 at
09:46 in
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barack obama,
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cake we can believe in,
inauguration,
oath of office,
obama cake,
steve rogovin,
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us elections,
virginia |
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I vaguely remember seeing this somewhere before, but hat tip to James for the reminder. Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher here in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Harry (senator (D) fromNevada ) Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and [...]
January 13th, 2009 at
09:17 in
Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags:
cowboy,
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harry reid,
horse rustling,
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Politics (Ireland),
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railroad,
remus reid,
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Minnesota Public Radio have posted some of the challenged ballots from the Norm Coleman/Al Franken recount. Vote on what you think the result should be for each one! Hours of fun – presuming they keep posting them. And a great example of public interest broadcasting (at least for political hacks like me!). Who gets this [...]
November 20th, 2008 at
17:45 in
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ballots,
minnesota,
minnesota public radio,
norm coleman,
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spoilt vote,
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The Obama campaign team haven’t just dropped their legions of volunteers now that the election is over. Apart from their requests for donations to fund the DNC’s debt and the transition phase, they’ve also sent out an email today (in David Plouffe‘s name) asking volunteers to give feedback on the campaign. It’s good to see [...]
November 19th, 2008 at
18:15 in
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barack obama,
david plouffe,
dnc,
grassroots,
opinion,
survey,
transition,
us election,
volunteer,
volunteering |
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Well, that was some two weeks. The Obama campaign is over – ending in victory, of course – and I’m back to Ireland today. (…well, it was “today” when I started writing this last Sunday.) The Obama campaign was, overall, a masterclass in grassroots activism. The sheer numbers of people contributing to the campaign – [...]
November 17th, 2008 at
10:15 in
Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags:
alexandria,
autonomy,
barack obama,
cialdini,
congress,
data,
data protection,
decision making,
democratic committee,
expectations,
field office,
fundraising,
george w bush,
grassroots,
ireland,
john kerry,
john mccain,
obama campaign,
ownership,
senate,
staff,
training,
us election,
us elections,
virginia,
volunteering,
volunteers,
voter registration |
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For the licence payers’ sake, lads. Two posts? How much time, effort and money was spent setting that up? C’mon, Charlie. Give us more, and give us comments! (Hat tip to Suzie)
Well, it’s all come to an end. There’s a more detailed post in the works about the Obama campaign and my experiences, but that’ll take a couple of days to complete. From all-you-can-eat sushi to getting thrown out of a restaurant, I’ve had a really great time here, mainly thanks to the great people I [...]
November 8th, 2008 at
20:35 in
Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags:
air france,
alexandria,
barack obama,
dc.omg,
jeff le,
mark warner,
stage door cafe,
sushi,
us election,
us elections,
virginia |
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Virginia called just seconds before the election as a whole. It’s been some trip. All my American friends are already unsewing the Canadian flags from their luggage.
The Stage Door Café in Alexandria is not a good place to go. In fact, it’s a fucking bad place to go if you’re a Democrat. A bunch of us from the Obama campaign were in there and got kicked out. We were paying customers (although the service was as shite as I’ve ever experienced [...]
November 4th, 2008 at
21:12 in
Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags:
alexandria,
café,
deli,
eat out,
eating,
food,
ny deli,
restaurant,
stage door,
stage door cafe,
va,
virginia |
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