GOTV is eeeeeasy.
Well sorta.
I've been chained to the office here all day in case shit goes down with the phones and the internet. Shit has not gone down. I sneaked out against orders to deliver some totems and 4 x 8s out to viz stations in front of the polling locations in wards 1, 2, and 3 in Merrimack (doncha love how I lingo-drop. I do it to impress you all). If viz were votes it'd be a Dean landslide. We had more people, more signs, and better logisitics (hot-chocolate anyone? who needs handwarmers?) than all the other campaigns. Kerry might be able to sucker people into voting for him but he's not so hot at suckering people into volunteering for him. Kossack Adam in MA is out on Amherst St in Nashua with his homemade 16 foot yellow cloth banner that reads : "Howard Dean for President 2004".
Yesterday we loaded up on food for all the vols. It was like Supermarket sweep. We spent around $650 on bottled water, granola bars and hot chocolate. I made sure to stock up on Diet Cokes (take that Trippi!). As we made a choo-choo train of loaded carts out to the vans in the parking lot my wintern partner remarked: "Can my life get anymore surreal?"
Today she went back for another load. The same cashier who checked us out last time was in the next lane over.
"Did you go through ALL that food?"
"You betcha!"
"So...how's your boy doin'?"
"Pretty good. The most recent reports have us in a really close race with Kerry."
Then the cashier screwed up her face:
"Blech, if Kerry wins, I'm voting for Bush."
"Well you better go vote for Dean. A vote for Dean's a vote against Kerry."
"I think I will"
Scoring 1's up to the wire.