We need a crowd of at least 10,000 to combat Palin in Roanoke the same day. Word is, the GOP wants that event to overshadow Barack's visit to The Valley.
With everyone yesterday busily canvassing, phone-banking, painting signs and preparing for Barack's first visit this fall to a crucial, make-deep-inroads-into- a-traditional-GOP-stronghold, the Shenandoah Valley, at command central at 124 S. Main St. in Harrisonburg...
I was asked to spread the word: Palin is speaking in the capital city of the state's western, Appalachian tier, Roanoke, on Tuesday, the same day Barack will be at James Madison University's (JMU) Convocation Center. Barack wowed'em at Roanoke's Civic Center on a recent (Oct. 17), rainy Friday. Word filtering into our Harrisonburg HQ was that the GOP wants to make Palin's visit a stadium event. Fine, we all know the wingnuts will turn out en masse for her, but...let's not fail to have a teeming, passionate, on-the-cusp-of-a-victory-for-the-ages crowd for our guy.
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