Campaign Stories

While the media covers a lot of bullshit about the candidates in their horse race narratives, there are softer stories out there that do not deal with $400 haircuts, Madrassas and the obsession of some that one of the candidates is a woman. Being a veteran of field operations for candidates, I could tell a lot of different tales that probably wouldn't be displayed on a nightly news segment, but would definitely catch the ears of other people that have volunteered or worked on GOTV operations before. But enough about me, there are hundreds if not thousands of dedicated staffers and volunteers on the ground this weekend braving the cold weather of New Hampshire so that their candidate may have a shot at the political "gold."

From Blue Hampshire:

Bill Richardson will be in town today, speaking in the town square, which is a small park area in the middle of town on a large rotary.

Normally the square can accommodate hundreds of people -- it's the place where during the summer bands play. If you want to go hear a concert on the square you get a blanket, bring a lunch and sit or stand right there on the grass.

Problem is it's January 6, and there's a foot and a half of snow on the square. So I got curious as to how they were going to deal with this conundrum.

The answer is that they came enmasse and dug the square out. It's pretty inspiring.

Watch the video via the link above. Blue Hampshire is right, this is inspiring, especially knowing the fact that their candidate has absolutely no chance other than to hopefully become Hillary's VP candidate. Good for his supporters to sacrifice a Saturday night to shovel a ton of snow. That is just the kind of stuff you do when working the ground game. Thankfully I did most of my ground work in Arizona, so ya know, cold was 30 degrees on a bad night, not wind chills of 30 below.