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′);
