Comments on: First Day in New Hampshire (unedited version) http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/12/27/first-day-in-new-hampshire-unedited-version/ If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doug Gibson http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/12/27/first-day-in-new-hampshire-unedited-version/comment-page-1/#comment-16629 Doug Gibson Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:27:28 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4643#comment-16629 "but the fact of the matter is, hello people: your vote always counts and mine never does." DQ, I hope you get the chance to give some Granite stater this pearl of wisdom with both barrels. With great power comes great responsibility, and with the modicum of increased power that comes with living in an early primary state there comes, well, the modicum of responsibility connected with not being rude to volunteers on the phone, or if you can't manage that, making the choice to just not pick the phone up at all. Thanks very much for the update, and happy dialing! “but the fact of the matter is, hello people: your vote always counts and mine never does.”

DQ, I hope you get the chance to give some Granite stater this pearl of wisdom with both barrels. With great power comes great responsibility, and with the modicum of increased power that comes with living in an early primary state there comes, well, the modicum of responsibility connected with not being rude to volunteers on the phone, or if you can’t manage that, making the choice to just not pick the phone up at all.

Thanks very much for the update, and happy dialing!

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]]> By: rip http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/12/27/first-day-in-new-hampshire-unedited-version/comment-page-1/#comment-16621 rip Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:30:05 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4643#comment-16621 Let's hope Hillary's projected "image of inevitability" isn't working on the folks in New Hampshire or Iowa for that matter. Let’s hope Hillary’s projected “image of inevitability” isn’t working on the folks in New Hampshire or Iowa for that matter.

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]]> By: DBK http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/12/27/first-day-in-new-hampshire-unedited-version/comment-page-1/#comment-16620 DBK Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:16:36 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4643#comment-16620 My phonebanking experiences have always been good for a blog post. There's always something interesting or instructive that comes of talking to scores of people over a period of a couple of hours regarding their political opinions. My handicapping in Iowa has it running Clinton, Edwards, Obama. New Hampshire is tighter on my sheet, but I think Edwards had a definite shot at number one and Obama's run starts to go down sharply once he hits the Granite State. My phonebanking experiences have always been good for a blog post. There’s always something interesting or instructive that comes of talking to scores of people over a period of a couple of hours regarding their political opinions.

My handicapping in Iowa has it running Clinton, Edwards, Obama. New Hampshire is tighter on my sheet, but I think Edwards had a definite shot at number one and Obama’s run starts to go down sharply once he hits the Granite State.

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]]> By: Undercover Blue http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/12/27/first-day-in-new-hampshire-unedited-version/comment-page-1/#comment-16610 Undercover Blue Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:11:47 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4643#comment-16610 Miss you guys. Just today a neighbor said he thought Edwards was the best candidate, as the most likely to stand up to corporate interests and put them in their places (like Teddy?). Hadn't thought that angle before, but he was right. Someone needs to. Enjoy New 'ampshire. Call soon. Miss you guys.

Just today a neighbor said he thought Edwards was the best candidate, as the most likely to stand up to corporate interests and put them in their places (like Teddy?). Hadn’t thought that angle before, but he was right. Someone needs to.

Enjoy New ‘ampshire. Call soon.

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]]> By: John Warren http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/12/27/first-day-in-new-hampshire-unedited-version/comment-page-1/#comment-16596 John Warren Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:34:10 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4643#comment-16596 After a great deal of thought and research my hope is that Edwards will win the nomination and choose Obama as his running mate. I recently made a trip to Alabama where I met an 60 year old Irish-American there that said he is an independent voter. He told me that he voted for Kennedy over Nixon, Goldwater of Johnson, Nixon over McGovern, Cater over Ford, Reagan over Carter, Reagan again, Bush over Ducacus, Perot over Bush and Clinton, Clinton over Dole, Gore over Bush, Kerry over Bush and now feels that he will take almost any Democrat over the "bunch of idiots" that say they are republican. He had a hat on that said "Alabama loves O'bama." He went on to tell me that He thinks that Obama or Edwards is the best choice and the only way to get both on the ticket would be to choose Edwards to top the ticket. Interesting take. After a great deal of thought and research my hope is that Edwards will win the nomination and choose Obama as his running mate.

I recently made a trip to Alabama where I met an 60 year old Irish-American there that said he is an independent voter. He told me that he voted for Kennedy over Nixon, Goldwater of Johnson, Nixon over McGovern, Cater over Ford, Reagan over Carter, Reagan again, Bush over Ducacus, Perot over Bush and Clinton, Clinton over Dole, Gore over Bush, Kerry over Bush and now feels that he will take almost any Democrat over the “bunch of idiots” that say they are republican. He had a hat on that said “Alabama loves O’bama.” He went on to tell me that He thinks that Obama or Edwards is the best choice and the only way to get both on the ticket would be to choose Edwards to top the ticket.

Interesting take.

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]]> By: Gordon Smith http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/12/27/first-day-in-new-hampshire-unedited-version/comment-page-1/#comment-16595 Gordon Smith Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:17:56 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4643#comment-16595 Drama Queen! Thanks for the reportage and inspiration. I'm not an Edwards fan, but I love that you're up there doing everything you can to get your man elected. I learned to enjoy phone banking in the run-up to the '06 election. There were a lot of annoyed people, to be sure, but there were also a number of conversations I had that I'll never forget. One in particular was a woman who was earnestly trying to figure out how to tell her very conservative family that she was going to vote for Jim Webb. She was truly paralyzed by the thought of going against her family's mores, but she was incensed at the Republicans. We spent about 15 minutes together, and she decided to spend more time with Democratic party voting friends of hers. Drama Queen!

Thanks for the reportage and inspiration. I’m not an Edwards fan, but I love that you’re up there doing everything you can to get your man elected. I learned to enjoy phone banking in the run-up to the ’06 election. There were a lot of annoyed people, to be sure, but there were also a number of conversations I had that I’ll never forget.

One in particular was a woman who was earnestly trying to figure out how to tell her very conservative family that she was going to vote for Jim Webb. She was truly paralyzed by the thought of going against her family’s mores, but she was incensed at the Republicans. We spent about 15 minutes together, and she decided to spend more time with Democratic party voting friends of hers.

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