Election Day Afternoon Dispatch
It’s Election Day, and the Texas State Headquarters in Austin is hard at work. This guy is talking on two phones at once!
I walked into a room they call a boiler room and there was this cool-looking projector projecting numbers onto the wall. I asked a girl if I could hang out in the room and listen to what was going on. She looked at me like I had just asked her to take off her clothes and run around the office. Absolutely not was the answer.
Martyn and Andrew, on the other hand, always have time for me.
They were giving me a hard time for describing Martyn’s accent as Danish. Apparently, it’s Dutch. Who am I, Rand McNally?
Check out Andrew playing Scrabulous while he rolls calls.
My next stop was a polling place. The line at this one was out the door.
They had those computer ballots I’d heard so much about, which look like giant PDAs.
I got yelled at for taking this picture, by the way.
Not a lot of love for me today.
I’m off to San Antonio, where hopefully my luck will improve.
– Hillel Aron
ONE NIGHT, ONE TIME, ONE RALLY, ONE CANDIDATE, ONE VOICE
I believe it would be a very powerful statement for us to organize a nationwide rally that happens in every state at the same time on the same night in the near future. We can call it the “Stand As One for Change” Nationwide Rally. We should demonstrate together as one to show that Barak Obama represents each one of us. We should stand up and be counted. We should show them who the “WE” really is, in the “Yes WE Can” motto. Since Hillary Clinton claims that Sen. Obama’s speeches are “empty” we should show the Democratic Party, the Country and the World who he is representing and what they are really “filled” with–each one of our hopes and dreams. I believe they need to see with their eyes, since they are unable or unwilling to hear our voices. Sen. Obama speaks for us…We should stand for him. Please e-mail me back at tracytle@aol.com and let me know how you think we could work together to make this powerful statement a reality!
I think that’s a GREAT idea!…And I’m a Republican!!
Yes WE Can!!
thanks hillel. but things need to change in the Obama camp’s message. I see Barack is already suggesting to the media what i asserted in my comments to your last post: investigate the MYTH of Hillary’s so called 35 years experience. Also a freshening of the rhetoric is sorely needed. The obama campaign has to stop talking about the “delegate lead” and the “math.” This has no meat and sounds empty, and even petty, like a kid that doesn;lt want to share his twinkies at lunch: i have more twinkies! The focus ought to be on the voice of the states where both have campaigned and that have voted for Barack, that “we have undisputedly run a stronger race” “we are winning this race and will continue to win this race”
also, Barack’s surrogates need to steer the media to scrutinize the victories: what does a Barack victory look like, how does that make people feel, how many people has that united. And then look at a clinton victory: what carnage has been left behind, what histrionics, muckracking, littigation claims, negative attention, diviseness, stilted-ness, choppiness, unpredictable-ness, in fact the clinton campaign’s last message was fear based doubt raising…and you might say, this is politics as usual and I would say: exactly.
Chicago. 1968. Fire hoses. Say no more.