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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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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