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05 Oct 2008 03:25 pm
Email From New Hampshire
A reader writes:
I was canvassing all day yesterday in Manchester NH, which I've been doing every weekend since the beginning of September.
I was last in the Manchester office (the state HQ) a month ago, and
there were maybe 30-50 people at a time coming through. Yesterday,
there were well over a hundred. Local Democratic committees were using
saved-up funds to hire buses to transport anyone who volunteered, and
local volunteers were used to shuttle canvassers to and from their
turfs. The Obama campaign (which shares an office with the Shaheen
senate campaign) has a great location with some visibility on the main
street in Manchester. The McCain folks have an office on the third
floor of an old building in an out-of-the-way part of town with no
ground floor visibility.
After all this time in various parts of New Hampshire, yesterday was
the first time I saw any McCain literature left on doorsteps and the
first time I ran into anyone canvassing for McCain. Besides their
relative absence, I was surprised to find that the canvassers were boys
who looked like they might not be old enough to vote themselves, and
they were walking around together in groups of 3, which adds nothing in
terms of effectiveness and means that you can only visit 1/3 as many
houses.
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