Dean support in Salt Lake City probably increased today!

[Sean Reynolds]

Today we set up a booth at the 9th and 9th street fair for Howard Dean. For you that don't know (meaning all of you) 9th and 9th is a liberal neighborhood in Salt Lake City. It's located at 900 South and 900 East and is filled with small business type shops, coffee houses, and an independent arts theatre.

Anyway the Dean booth was set up right next to the Kucinich booth, the guy running the Kucinich booth was VERY kind in letting us place some bumper stickers and literature on his side. :bounce:

Of course since this area is an ENCLAVE for the GLBT community, we got A LOT of support. But what was shocking is how much support was from people that had never even been to his website! The common person would say they LOVED him in the debate, LOVED him in his speeches, LOVED him in his interview - but never went to the site.

We had about 100 bumper stickers and ran out in about 3 hours. Not only that but we signed up SIX-SEVEN sheets for their e-mail campaign.

It was AWESOME today. The support was amazing. Even our mayor, Rocky Anderson, said he was leaning in supporting Howard Dean! Not only that but the Democratic Progressive Caucasus will support him too.

What makes it all worth wild? The only other candidate there was Kucinich - which oddly enough was being ran by a Dean-Kucinich supporter. Kerry, Lieberman, Gep, Edwards - NOT a booth!

Now we hope that in the coming weeks people place their stickers on their car and we start getting even MORE support. In fact I even pulled a Lyndon Larouche supporter over to 'possibly' supporting Dean!

As you can see I had a blast! GOD this is awesome, I love being part of something so BIG.

[liberalmuse]

1. You were awesome!

I said this earlier at the fair, so you know who I am. It was nice meeting and chatting with you and other Dean campaigners. It's rare that I can so voraciously talk about politics or Dean without someone wanting me to shut the hell up.

I had a blast, and was really surprised at how many people were coming up to the booth on their own accord, despite that fact that we weren't passing out cards along the walkway like the man in the Kucinich booth was. I thought it was funny when we'd ask, 'Do you know who Dean is?' and would get, 'Oh yeah!'

It was nice that there was no animosity whatsoever between the Kucinich and Dean tablers. This was my first ever attempt at campaigning for a candidate, and it felt great!

You know that friend I left early to visit? It was a real downer. She was at a mutual friend's place and they were all stinking drunk and sitting around watching tv. She almost sneered when she saw my Dean button--'Dean, huh?' I should have stayed at the fair for the last hour. I'll end this on an up note saying, 'Great job!'

[clar]

2. kudos

you are fantastic! Great job.

[REP]

3. Excellent!

Great job! Nice to hear how many people who don't live, breathe and eat politics know who Dean is and are supporters!