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GOTV in Seattle: E-Day 2008

390 days ago

Well, this is certainly a ride at the regional election central I've set up at my place. It was hard to judge how many people would show up for day-of canvassing, phonebanking, and sign-waving. 30+ or more have been in and out all day for the three shifts we've got for canvassing and phonebanking; seems my house is almost literally littered with people. Folks on the stairs, co-opting the bathroom, standing here and there, using whatever space they could find. The spirit of the day reminds me not a little of the precinct caucuses: with all the anticipation back in early February, neither was it clear how many volunteer captains would show up nor how many caucus-goers finally. The turnout today is as impressive as it was then, to my mind, at least where it concerned the volunteers who were motivated to make a difference. Earlier in the day I stopped off at the Fremont Bridge to see how our sign-waving visibility crew was doing, and they seemed to be having a great time. My ...

Something inspirational, something f'n hilarious

396 days ago

Quick post--been busy w/ other things, including organizing WA-36 grassroots canvasses, etc.; my apologies for my lapses. If I had my druthers, I might do this sort of thing full time, but hey, that's a hard row to hoe. First, some inspiration I came across today: Second, one of the funniest damn Palin-themed vids I've been sent, this with Vlad and Boris from "45454 Russia Avenue": Be well--and remember to VOTE EARLY! - dave //

Awesome electoral map from KOS

414 days ago

Too useful not to post this. - dave //

Chill out?

445 days ago

The McCain campaign seems to have thrown away any pretense of campaigning on the issues and are doing a Rove turn to the negative and mendacious. This shouldn't be much of a surprise, I suppose, but nonetheless I had hoped for something different this year. They know they can't win on the issues or the record, so they're doing everything they can to throw up a smoke screen on the Rovian theory that the American public is easily duped, especially by a compliant and lazy main stream media. To them, the truth is irrelevant or simply relative and subject to convenient revision, objective reality be damned. I fear they may be right, given the shift in the polls, this frenzied swoon over this unlikely arriviste Palin, and the way things just "feel." Palin is quite a phenomenon, and I get the sense that the Obama campaign is still struggling to find its tactical footing in her regard. She seems to have simultaneously attracted white women, mothers in ...

Enough!

457 days ago

Obama's speech was electric--it was like a thunderstorm from Mile High Stadium. And I think I can say that even though I was way back in the cheap seats at home, hosting a convention watch party in a room full of Democrats ready to get charged up again and go back into the fray. There I was, listening to him going through the opening paragraphs, hoping he'd deliver something somehow more than "workmanlike," as it was billed prior, in a deliberate attempt to deflate expectations. I was a bit drowsy and distracted, not necessarily from the Convention itself and the endless chatter coming from it during the week, but really from a 2-3 month hiatus from political activity, after I hit serious burnout from the seemingly endless primaries. It feels like that was a long, long time ago. And then, suddenly, like a peal of thunder, Obama laid into it: Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This ...