Posts Tagged va

Stage Door Café Alexandria – Never Fucking Go There

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 [...]

Virginia – Day 9

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 [...]

Virginia – Day 8 (and a bit of 9)

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 [...]