Nasty rain today (so much for my hand-painted sign ), but turnout looks pretty strong. Here in Ward 4, Precinct 1, we were counting 186 ballots by 9am — very brisk voting rate, I think.
Did visibility at the polls early morning (7-9am). Our small signs were disintegrating in the rain, and someone ran [...]
The Obama campaign has shrewdly preferred canvassing over visibility, focusing its efforts on finding and turning out voters rather than vague opinion-shaping. But after doing two canvasses yesterday I was ready for a change of pace, and waving signs around at honking cars is a good way to recharge my “Fired up!” batteries.
So we planted [...]
Last night I phonebanked out of Harvard Law School, and by sheer coincidence the group was covering Ward 4-1 — my neighborhood. After spending a week in South Carolina campaigning for Obama, it was refreshing (and fun!) to call around to my own neighbors. (People are also less likely to hang up on you right [...]
White homeowners afraid of a black family moving into their neighborhoods often encourage the would-be seller to pull the home off the market. “I’m not racist,” they explain, “but other people are. And all of our home prices will suffer.”
These homeowners are perpetuating bigotry, and so are voters who won’t cast their ballots for a [...]
All of our photos from South Carolina (Flickr)
I’ve been linking to my photo sets on Facebook, but the Flickr photos are more complete and (in most cases) higher resolution.
