Sunday, October 24
I'm in Wisconsin to volunteer for the Kerry campaign. Today I completed the 2-day drive from NYC to Beaver Dam where I'll be staying with my brother and his family. BD is a 45 minute drive east of Madison. I'm scheduled to show up at the Kerry campaign office in Madison at 10am Monday morning.
Drove through PA and OH on the way. Are all the swing states this beautiful?
Watched the scary-hilarious Obama/Keyes debate in my hotel room outside Cleveland on Saturday night. What a blow-hard Keyes is. Constantly referencing the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Trying frame every issue as a struggle between moral righteousness and moral turpitude. Obama seemed a tiny bit nervous and exasperated at times though he kept control of himself. Really, Keyes' tone and framing is so absurd. He's somewhere on the other side of bloviation: it's kind of impressive in a very disturbing way. Obama's self control ended up seeming quite remarkable. Keyes: Illinoians should be allowed to carry automatic weapons; choice makes a woman's relation to her fetus the equivalent of the slaveholder's to his slave.