starroute
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Sun Oct-31-04 08:01 PM
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The insane dedication of Democratic volunteers in Pennsylvania |
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I went down this afternoon to an ACT training for doing GOTV on Tuesday. I'm trying to do my small part locally -- but I was awed and somewhat abashed by the intensity of the people who are really carrying the effort along.
One woman doing the training said she and her husband had both taken a month off from work to come down to Pennsylvania to do this. Another said she'd been working until 2 am every night for weeks.
They said that volunteers had just been pouring in. The phone would ring at 1 am and it would be someone saying, "Gee, I just saw your website and I want to help. And what are you doing there at this hour -- I thought I'd just leave a message on your machine."
They have 1800 volunteers for election day in Bucks County alone and 18,000 for all of Pennsylvania -- more than any other state. And that's just ACT and the groups it's working with, like Planned Parenthood. It doesn't include anyone who might be working for MoveOn or for the Kerry campaign directly.
I'm going to be driving four people who are assigned to cover a small area of one of the nearby towns, walking through it three times and knocking on the door of every likely Kerry voter on each pass to make sure they get out to vote. This is unbelievable to me -- when I was a little kid, get out the vote meant my dad going through our apartment building once before the election, and that was all. The magnitude of this operation totally stonkers my imagination.
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Sun Oct-31-04 08:03 PM
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1. I just carved "VOTE" on my jack-o-lantern. Instead of a face., |
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It's gonna have lights in it ALL NIGHT LONG.
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Sun Oct-31-04 08:05 PM
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2. These Are the Real American Patriots |
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Not the dime-store patriot phonies with their flags on thier SUVs and their Bush-Cheney bumper stickers.
God bless them all....
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf
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Sun Oct-31-04 08:05 PM
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3. I rode home through Bucks tonight. |
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Edited on Sun Oct-31-04 08:06 PM by Tandalayo_Scheisskop
I rode down through NJ. Two things bothered me:
1) The number of B/C signs I saw. Way too many.
2)The number of B/C signs I saw that were vandalized. I hope it was just kids. We are better and smarter than that.
On edit: Good on all of you. Bring it home, chilluns.
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Hans Delbrook
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Sun Oct-31-04 09:49 PM
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4. Oh well, Bucks has always been big repuke area |
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Except for lower Bucks (where I grew up.) What shocks me (now living in middle Bucks) is the large # of KE signs I've been seeing (not counting our 5!)
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