Posted on 10/24/2008 3:06:39 PM PDT by Palin4President
We’re making progress, and our incumbent’s machine is feeling the heat.
Early voting started last Thursday, and we’ve been staffing polling places throughout the District to spread the word about the campaign. Our team has been doing a great job — in fact, in some cases they’ve been doing such a great job that the opposition has tried to shut them down.
Theresa and Tiffany were working at a polling place in South Durham on Thursday, and apparently their readiness to engage with voters created a bit of nervousness among the Democratic party staffers. After a few hours, a lady drove up to the polling place, approached Theresa and Tiffany, thanked them for doing such a good job, and told them they were being relieved and could hand over their materials.
Needless to say, this mystery lady was not from our campaign… which raises an obvious question: How stupid do these people think we are?
A few minutes later we received a call from Theresa and Tiffany asking where they should go next, since they’d “been relieved.” Of course, this mystery was too good to pass up. JoLynn and I were driving around visiting folks at various polling places, so we dropped by the place where Theresa and Tiffany had been relieved… and I paid the Democratic party folks a visit.
I was immediately greeted by a nice fifty-something lady who asked me if I needed a sample ballot from the Democratic party. I said yes, and she graciously explained how easy it is to vote Obama, straight ticket Democrat, and then choose the slate of Democratic judicial candidates. I thanked her for the orientation, and then asked her if she’d seen my friends Theresa and Tiffany who had been working at the poll earlier that morning.
“Uhhhhh…. they left. They folded. Guess they got tired.”
Wrong answer.
I was polite, but after expressing my displeasure with the shallow deception used to steal our materials and disrupt our greeters, the trio of Democratic volunteers working at this polling place looked like they’d swallowed something a bit too big for their esophagus.
Some people believe we’re playing a game of simple party politics as we work to advance principled government that serves the people. This isn’t a game, despite the dirty pool being played by these partisan hacks.
After this brief distraction, however, Theresa and Tiffany returned to work their magic. We’ve continued to garner votes at the polls with our fantastic supporters on the ground, and we’re launching a new positive media campaign to stake out the high ground as we head towards election day:
>Supposedly a “safe” seat for David Price. And yet Price is under 50% (well below his normal 65%) and with Lawson raising way more than any Price-challenger in the past decade, this could be an interesting race
Indeed it could.
Just voted here today. Anyone buy Price...
Price was knocked off once - back in ‘94.
He wasn’t paying attention to his district and the GOP wave over-ran him.
It would be nice to see him lose again.
Amen. Not only do I not like Price as a congress-critter, I also dislike him in that he is a sitting congressman and incumbent. They all must go!
I don’t know Lawson, but I voted for him because of who his opponent is. I only pray that Price goes down in flames...
Awesome blog. Very disturbing, however.
Here in New Jersey campaign partisans are not permitted to address voters. They are allowed to serve as challengers and to check off who has voted for the purpose of get out the vote calls late in the day, but the signs say "no loitering or electioneering".
The board workers consist of two Republicans and two Democrats, who keep an eye on each other.
Why?
For example, a nineteen year old Dem told me yesterday that “lying is only a problem in Republican morality”. In her morality, “personal attacks are a much bigger problem than lying”.
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