Obama Phone bank screw up assumed to be Clinton dirty trick

Obama hired an out of state phone bank to inform his supporters to go to the caucus.   Unfortunatly they had the wrong day, telling people to go to the caucus location on Sunday and not on Saturday.   Of course the first response was "it's a Clinton dirty trick" but as it turns out, it was just a mistake.  

This is really emblematic of the smearing going on around here lately.  It's great that everyone is paying attention, especially the hordes of new comers that both candidates have attracted.  But, unfortunatly, the first response out of many people's mouths is scandel.   Truth is, most of the time honest mistakes are to blame for the problems that come up during campaigns.

Here is the story.

Obama phone callers had the wrong day for caucuses
By Charles E. Brown

Seattle Times staff reporter

In an effort to get Washington voters out to Saturday's caucuses here, the Obama campaign hired an out-of-state call firm to reach out to voters by phone.

But calls gave the wrong day, telling people on Thursday that the caucuses would be Sunday instead of Saturday.

For a time, some speculated that the calls could have been a dirty trick by the Clinton campaign. But not so, says Obama campaign spokesman Amy Brundage.

Callers were simply reading from a prepared script used earlier on Thursday for calls being made to Maine voters about that state's caucuses, which indeed are on Sunday.

"The problem has been resolved," Brundage said today, and those Washington voters who were contacted were being called back today with the correct information.