I was thrown out of this place for being a Democrat. On election day. And my party and I were the only paying customers in the place! Apparently wearing an Obama sweatshirt is not permitted. Service was awful too – we waited for more than thirty minutes for a cup of coffee, and one of our party had [...]
November 4th, 2008 at
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Greetings from the Data Cave in the Obama for America Alexandria, VA, Field Office. Polls have been open in Virginia for just over four hours now, and voting has been brisk, although there haven’t been the extraordinary queues seen last time. This has a lot to do with the very strong early voting showing – [...]
November 4th, 2008 at
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Huge numbers out for Obama in Alexandria today. Our phone banks are running at full capacity, as are the canvassing teams. There’s a great buzz about the place, which the Virginia motivational video I mentioned earlier has only heightened. There’s even artwork going on: And the phone banks are going at full steam – running [...]
November 2nd, 2008 at
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This motivational video was produced for the Virginia campaigners: fastswfembed(“http://www.youtube.com/v/OofHuLW6xdM&hl=en&fs=1″,425,344,’242-0′);
Very hectic. All the stops are being pulled out on the ground here in Alexandria. Unlike the Florida McCain office that FiveThirtyEight (the bible on polls, by the way), photographed tonight, I can assure you, having just left it, that the Obama Field Office in Alexandria, VA, is still working. That’s 1am local time. There [...]
November 2nd, 2008 at
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Writing this while sitting in the Obama Field Office in Alexandria, VA, doing some data entry from last night’s phone banking (just waiting for a fresh set of data). Conor & Gavin are off to Virginia Beach to the Obama rally – try doing some real work, lads! Clocked up another 164 Calls for Victory [...]
October 30th, 2008 at
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Spent most of today phonebanking for Obama at the campaign’s Alexandria HQ. The response in the city is very strongly pro-Obama, so it’s important to get the vote out. What was really good to see was the huge number of people who’ve voted early in order to avoid queues on election day (which were apparently [...]
There’s great interest and enthusiasm around the city and suburbs about the election. You expect to see posters and ads, but there are a huge number of people walking around wearing stickers, pins and t-shirts for candidates. Even children are feeling ownership of the campaign. This sign is up in a garden in Alexandria, just [...]
October 26th, 2008 at
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For anyone who was paying attention, I’ve just arrived in Virginia. Just… Both my flights were delayed. DUB-AMS had to turn back from the runway in DUB after one of the cockpit radios failed, and AMS-IAD was late, buffeted by the worst turbulence I’ve ever encountered in a commercial jet (although I’ve flown in worse [...]
October 25th, 2008 at
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I’m off to Virginia on Saturday. This is why: fastswfembed(“http://www.youtube.com/v/5D25XdhNW5U&hl=en&fs=1″,425,344,’206-0′);
