sunday was four hours of transcripts in the morning, then 12 hours of campaign work, did a little of everything, knocking, calling, QCing (quality control on packets), data-entering, lit-dropping (at 2 a.m., a strange mix of quiet-but-not-so-quiet-i'm-mistaken-for-prowler).   yesterday was also "enter teh phaedrusstew ," who deftly learned the campaign's ( Read more... )

hit 27 doors, went back for shut-ins, hiders -- you can't hide from the "change" door-hangers!  then headed back to HQ to collate packets for sunday.  reader may ask, so few doors?  that's because moveon made their move today.  arlington was flooded with hundreds of out-of-state moveon volunteers, packets were snapped up like tax breaks at a ( Read more... )

get the packets, get the packets, get the packets.  after waiting too long for my favorite 10B bus, the night picked up a little with some costumed drunk watching on the metro.  i was blessed by the pope of the orange line as i made my way to courthouse.  nothing more exciting tonight, collated canvasser packets, connected the dots on their maps.

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didn't dial voters tonight, was confirming canvassers for saturday, spamming the precinct captain's cell phone number onto dozens of voicemails, pinning down a few would-be flakes (me smackin' on flakes, as if i'm mr. reliable, well, ya know, must front sometimes to get things done).

notes and assorted:

fairfax county comrades, early voting info.

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only 27 calls tonight, the unholy trinity of charlie rose, larry king (interview mccain, naturally), and chris matthews (actually like old tweety, i mostly blame charlie rose) kept me from making more.  four responses tonight, not a great ratio, but not terrible.  one woman needed a croatian interpreter, but she seemed to understand where the ( Read more... )

think me math skilz sook.  the subject line was supposed to be counting the night before or of, but i lost track.  now adjusted for tuesday.  attended first caps game this evening, a fine victory, even if in cheesy shootout.  meanwhile, scheduled calling times for wednesday and thursday, halloween friday still up in the air.  canvassing two shifts ( Read more... )

took a campaign break this past evening to stuff envelopes for taffety punk, back on the phones wednesday.  meanwhile, tell everybody you know, here's how to give a fox interview.

sixty-five doors knocked on again, curious, water finding its level?  met more neighbors, second passes today for yesterday's "not homes." not too surprising in the people's republic of arlington, but there is absolutely zero mccain ground presence.  missed a media event today at the rally point for the 3 p.m. canvass, apparently terry mcauliffe of ( Read more... )

sixty-five doors knocked on today, would've been a lot more if i wasn't such a basket case.  in a combination of lifelong report card nemesis "doesn't use time wisely," ill-advised coffee at 11:00 p.m., and an inability to finish a fox biz 'script from the night before (just couldn't take it anymore, fox must have an in-house policy interrupting a ( Read more... )

voters called tonight: zero!  larry king and chris matthews ate my clock, and all told i arrived at the phonebank a little too late to get anything done.  that said, big canvass saturday and sunday.