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Who said what? NH canvassing quotes (Clark's call too)

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Posted to Robbedvoter's weblog on Sun Nov 16th, 2003 at 10:52:57 PM EST


Who said what? NH canvassing quotes (Clark's call too) Firing up the supporters (before his coffee), Steve Boucher said (to the 150 students): Latter in life when you'll be running for office, you'll be listing this as credit: "In 2003 I helped in New Hampshire elect President Clark" Bill Cash - Manchester alderman (the first official to endorse Clinton in 92) "this is a mission to bring back democracy.
He told us he resigned after the appointed bush - to disgusted to have anything to do with public life. This changed when Clark declared - the first moment of hope - he is on board.
Heard while canvassing: Woman:"Honey, what candidate are we supporting? Honey: "Just leave us a brochure" Husband of registered Democrat: "Mia: Is your name French?" Man: "Yes." "No." " What?""Who?" I've been in service in 1040 - one year and Clark is a phony" Mia: "Why?" "He is a joke - all Democrats are - an insult to the White House. They are no Truman, FDR or Eisenhower. I only like Bush - he knows how to talk to people" Me - smiling sweetly: "True, especially his "Who cares what you think"
Saturday evening Clark called from the NBC Green Room. We were all listening on speaker phones. Clark: "Hi. I am waiting here to be grilled by Tim Russert" He then said he was so grateful for the work we were doing and wanted to know what they were feeding us (zitti with meat sauce). he wanted to know the details of the canvassing organization - how do we keep track so we don't visit the same people twice. he then asked for the best story.
Someone obliged: "we arrived to this house with a porch covered in Dean paraphernalia. We said: "We know you support Dean but..." "Nah, I am not that sure about that Dean anymore" So we talked to her, and by the time we finished, she tore down all her Dean stuff." Clark then wanted the worst story - so I volunteered my dialogue with the confused Bush supporter (I left out the "phony" remark)
Chris , the organizer of the canvassing then reported that we knocked on 8,525 doors. "OK, how many doors in new Hampshire? And Clark started one of his dead pan number crunching with Chris seriously saying: "yes sir! "We need to reach all voters by december - that means we need 100,000 people next weekend, unless we get families of 20" "yes sir" We were all laughing and I was thinking of Scotty: "She canna take it anymore" Kirk: "I need warp 9 NOW" "Aye aye, captain" Someone mentioned some students from the military academy were amongst us, including some who served in Iraq. "I love you and thank you" Clark said simply to them.
Yesterday and today we were telling people to watch MTP, so the last sound bite comes from Justin: "The last door we knocked on someone said: "Clark? I am voting for him! I just saw him on MTP and O decided that he is the one"
 
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Re: Who said what? NH canvassing quotes (Clark's c (#5) (Rated 4.00/1)

by thatmia on 11/17/2003 11:41:54 AM EST

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Leah,
Glad to see you're so quick on the ball with your report! It was fun going door-to-door with you. Only thing is, you might want to post a correction: we went to about 170 houses total, not 75 (between the 1st and 2nd day). Makes it seem even more impressive. Keep up the good work!


My own NH canvassing experience (#4) (No rating)

by mike from ri (mike-from-ri@forclark.com) on 11/17/2003 04:16:11 AM EST

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Dear Robbed (leah?): here is my post from the othetr Blog:
Leah, 17 & 20. I showed up late for canvassing at 10:30 Sun., driving up from RI. So I missed the conf call and the ziti. I did manage to get one-and-a-half routes done in a middle class section of Manchester.
Having taken part, but having missed Sat., I appreciated your report all the more.
I agree 100%. Virtually all were undecided (altho, after talking to me, a few inclined towards the General, I like to think.) Working class and middle class NH is still up for grabs.


Thank you, Leah... (#3) (No rating)

by Linda Grinaker (linda4140[at sign]yahoo.com) on 11/16/2003 11:38:39 PM EST

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Thank you, Leah, for sharing that with us.  It was terrific to read and feel like I was with you folks.
And to all who were a part of the efforts this week - THANK YOU!


Re: Who said what? NH canvassing quotes (Clark's c (#2) (No rating)

by Harry (no@email.com) on 11/16/2003 11:29:02 PM EST

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Hi Leah, have you heard anything about the Grenwich-Stuyvesent Democrats meeting? 


Re: Who said what? NH canvassing quotes (Clark's c (#1) (No rating)

by leonardr (leonardr at forclark dot com) on 11/16/2003 11:14:51 PM EST

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Could you clean this up a little so that it's easier to read? This is good stuff but difficult to read. I can do the editing for you, if you like.