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trinityofone 's new fic
"Call for Change" where John and Rodney are campaign volunteers for Obama.
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It took less than twenty minutes for Rodney McKay to get promoted (as much as one can be promoted when one is not getting paid) from an in-off-the-street volunteer caller to data coordinator. Rodney would tell anyone who asked (and did indeed tell many who didn’t) that this was obviously because his vast intelligence and limitless value to the campaign were instantly recognizable to even the most hippie-dippy, Birkenstock-wearing, fair-trade-coffee-charged phone bank manager. Though if pressed, he might admit that his telling the first McCain supporter he got on the line that she was a feeble-brained idiot who made him appreciate totalitarianism as a governing system may have had something to do with it.
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