From seserakh via glorgana, because I thought it was neat.


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Well, I haven't had time even to jot down notes when I get home, so I'll try to summarize the last 4 days in one post. Basically, days 4-6 had nothing new: all phones, all the time, from 10 AM to 9 PM. Somewhere in that period we shifted from making recruitment calls to mostly calling sporadic voters. Our goal there is to convince them to vote ( Read more... )

In the comments, there was a question about voter suppression tactics, so I'll address that here. There are really too many of them to go into much detail right now, but after the election I'll be sure to post about it. One tactic involves sending people to the polls to pose as authority figures, who tell people they need things like passports or ( Read more... )

Well, I learned some important things today. First is that you don't feel as tired on days when you haven't woken up at 4 AM, driven 4 hours, then done more than 4 hours of canvassing, followed by 5 hours of phone calls. Today the whole office spent the entire day making calls to recruit volunteers. Let me give you the breakdown of today's ( Read more... )

Well, I got up at five, and was on the road by 5:50. My goal was to get to Muncie before noon. After a pretty uneventful drive, I pulled up to the Obama office in Muncie around 11:15. My immediate superior, one of the two field organizers in this office (Delaware county plus two others), was there, and he gave me a quick tour, introduced me to ( Read more... )

Anyone who has had the misfortune of having certain friends show them a scene or two from the awful “American Pie” movies knows that musical instruments can be used in Satanic ways. Corroboration for this statement can be found in jazz music. But more importantly, it can also be found in Scripture.

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Remember the John Candy movie "Canadian Bacon"? You know, "90% of the Canadian population is amassed within 100 miles of the US border," so we should invade them before they invade us?

I just found out it was directed by... Michael Moore.

Weird.

Sometimes I see something that's just so ridiculous I have to share it ( Read more... )

Finally, Northwestern's grad school has joined the U-Pass program of the CTA, meaning I now have free unlimited public transit in Chicagoland! Well, technically the grad school adds another $60 quarterly fee for all full-time students, but since I don't actually pay that myself, it's free for me. Yay ( Read more... )

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