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
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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
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Off to the Labour Party Conference at the Hotel Kilkenny tomorrow evening. We’ll be keeping the interweb alive with twittering, blogging, live video feeds, Jaikuing, youtubery, Flickr-age and even RTÉ Live coverage. As usual for Labour these days, it’s way ahead of what the other Irish political parties are doing. Not sure that it wins [...]
November 27th, 2008 at
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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′);
