December 12, 2011
A few days ago, I noted that Newt’s rise in the polls was alarming poor Mittens. Unfortunately, his balancing act of trying to stay above the fray means that attacking his rivals has to be done by surrogates – it was time to send in the gnomes! In today’s Union Leader, Joe McQuaid laid out [ Read more ]
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November 30, 2011
Well, I got here what I thought was very early as I had been told that the “Volunteers” part of the evening was to be around 7:30pm. So, I arrived about 6:20 – and all of the street parking was already taken. Three satellite trucks (Channel 9 from NH, NECN for New England, and MyFox out of Boston) had already set up camp and running cabling. While the campaign office was pretty empty when I first arrived, it is since (as at 7:30pm or so), it has pretty much filled up with almost as many volunteer as media (a camera is trained on me as I type as they are getting B-roll).
The volunteers, for the most part, are rather angry – not at Herman but what seems to be the media and the “dirty tricks” that seem to go along with every major campaign. One lady came down from Augusta, ME to be here to show support – her mood was as red as her jacket. Another, a teacher, was also here in support not happy with the current events.
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