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tten i m wobbling over all that i ve built here and all that i ll have to leave behind in just a few fleeting days including people if this whole nutty edifying draining thing hasn t been all about the people nothing ever will be posted by pamused 16 42 0 comments 2 11 08 campaigning in ohio dispatch 5 i we crafted an op ed that just went up at alternet org behold an excerpt i ve thought of more excuses why not to vote why not to do this bobby told us and each time it has cost me more than it would have cost me to get up off my a excuse my french and try to make a change so said bobby johnson in the back of one of our vote today ohio shuttles when he spotted our van at the bishop cosgrove centre a food pantry in cleveland he climbed right on in he hadn t voted in years but on october 4th 2008 bobby became one of the 67 408 ohioans who cast a ballot during the first week of ohio s new early voting period we have seen and heard bobby s story repeated from cincinnati to youngstown from athens to toledo so many unlikely voters we drove to ohio early voting centers represent this truth elections are changing you might even say democracy itself in fact is changing for the better ohio no longer has an election day innovative updating of the process has now yielded an election month and we ve seen the embracing of this change in the faces of the very voters most positively impacted by it this year an estimated 1 out of 3 americans will cast their ballot either through absentee or early voting colorado is even expected to see half its turnout amongst early voters ohio secretary of state jennifer brunner opened early voting centers in every county on september 30 and will keep them open through november 3 she has gone openly and vehemently on the record as supporting early voting as a means of broadening access and estimates that 25 percent of ohio s registered voters or the number of voters voting will have voted before election day our vans have transported all manner of ohioans of bobby johnsons who are unlikely to have voted otherwise nick drove an elderly dayton man to vote early who figured his absentee ballot would be lost at the housing project where he lives caty drove columbus college students who were too excited to wait until november 4 erik drove a transient cincinnati woman who for forty years has abstained from elections thinking her vote didn t matter rafiq has driven countless young cleveland men who most people fear or overlook as part of the urban scenery moving nearly 3500 ohioans to early voting centers has helped us understand all too well why opponents would devote precious time and resources to convincing the public that early voting is trouble because it helps bring marginalized people in from the margins and that must threaten them to the bone challenging democracy indeed vote today ohio is eagerly calling any and all volunteers to help with the final push posted by pamused 14 47 1 comments 25 10 08 5th saturday in ohio whatever was i thinking that a day unplugged from this campaign wouldn t risk peeling back the glorious distraction from my shit that this trip has so far been back at the headquarters after my afternoon excursion to the movies i am enveloped now by the sheer chaos that is homecoming the buckeyes big game against penn state with this neighbourhood and surrounding streets ablaze with the fervor of team spirit of misspent youth of obnoxia nervosa it is amidst this jarring surreal soundtrack that i attempt to shove back under the folds the coils and batting that anxiously poked through today where ve i been they wonder almost audibly and who do i think i am leaving them untended this damn long and i well know the answer i am as deserving as anyone of a fresh break from old pain thank you very much and so i have managed to find myself as sublimely immersed in political passions as anyone could wish but handy they are my neglected bits or i might not have been so rocked gutted even by the poem caty read me just now what lips my lips have kissed and where and why i have forgotten and what arms have lain under my head till morning but the rain is full of ghosts tonight that tap and sigh upon the glass and listen for reply and in my heart there stirs a quiet pain for unremembered lads that not again will turn to me at midnight with a cry thus in winter stands the lonely tree nor knows what birds have vanished one by one yet knows its boughs more silent than before i cannot say what loves have come and gone i only know that summer sang in me a little while that in me sings no more edna st vincent millay posted by pamused 21 50 0 comments 11 10 08 campaigning in ohio dispatch 4 it sort of feels like i ve actually re located to columbus not just popped by as a political tourist in search of a hot campaign i mean today i did such i live here things as shop at target for scouring pads and a brita get a massage and visit the market for produce i m currently preparing a sweet potato chipotle soup feeling harassed by that bandwagon i picked up a copy of the secret life of bees which i shall curl up and read on the porch tonight instead of seeing margaret cho at the palace theatre an expense i really couldn t justify after our golden week grand finale on monday the campaign has temporarily suspended tate the director drove back to brooklyn for a few days to stroke shawna s baby bump plus he s up to his eyeballs in fec paperwork other members of the core team have scattered away for a few days of rest play and here i remain in columbus holding down the fort while tending to neglected contract work for clients from home and of course i saw obama yesterday at genoa park downtown it was all that i m so glad i came down here to this intensely heated battleground state what a freaking historic election i ve had occasion to weigh options and consider other points of interest in these here united states i thought about checking out philly looking for campaign work in florida or even heading to colorado where the race is tight and fascinating then amy our field director who is now home in new york state with her ducks and congressional races suggested my role in the next phase of our project could be that of more press officer duties while continuing my regional oversight of cincinnati that suits me fine i feel invested in ohio now especially after these two weeks of fervor and i like the idea of staying with this team and seeing something really cool to it s end what exactly are we going to do well now that golden week is over we are planning some variation on the same theme mobilize registered voters to continue to take advantage of the early vote scheme it all returns to full swing in this makeshift hq on monday morning here s what we i posted just the other day to the vote today ohio website look what happened in ohio monday was the final day of golden week here in ohio and we rocked it that was the day we banked just over 800 obama votes exact tallies to be confirmed that was the day we hit our single biggest total that was the day when all our advance work and publicity paid off it shows the cumulative power of our relentless organizers drivers team leaders and supporters we built a great organization together and no matter what curveballs came our way we persevered with our mission that perseverance touched people as corny as it sounds our work here hasn t just added votes to obama s column it has changed lives original volunteers have decided to stay longer to keep driving early voters new recruits found over the course of our activities have thrown themselves into the cause one of our team leaders in cincinnati called on tuesday to announce the amazing volunteers here just won t be stopped deep down i think he s why all of us do this work to make our democracy work for the people that need it most that s justice also of course we do this work to win so how does it all add up what do we have to show for our blood sweat and tears during golden week vote today ohio banked 3300 obama votes and 621 voter registrations did we make a critical contribution in america s 1 battleground state absolutely our 3300 votes were far more than just a drop in the bucket consider this in franklin county home to columbus 9264 people voted early during golden week vote today ohio vans and cars and marches moved 1369 of them to the polls yes we directly moved 14 8 percent of the early vote in franklin county it s safe to assume that thousands more heard about golden week directly from our work that s powerful we were the game in town plus we broke new ground we asked ourselves a risky question could a hard working and intrepid group of volunteers actually make good on an untested golden week voter mobilization program would voters respond could we pull it off in just three wee weeks the answers are a resounding yes sure we learned some tough lessons but we learned them well and by the end of the week we had the kind of smooth professional operation that any campaign would die for with some strategic tweaks our golden week program will now become a powerful tool in the progressive arsenal now for an important announcement over the next few days our core team will be processing and analyzing this amazing experiment we re already planning our next steps we ve built something strong and effective and are compelled to keep it moving so please stay tuned for our next phase and don t be surprised if we invite you back we should all feel immensely proud of the work we did from driving voters to the polls to engaging with them directly from supporting us with donations to housing our volunteers to a zillion other things we ve accomplished an historic feat this week go ahead pat yourself on the back celebrate our success and when obama wins in november you ll be able to say that s my victory with deep deep respect for all you ve done this week the vote today ohio team posted by pamused 19 07 4 comments 6 10 08 campaigning in ohio dispatch 3 for starters i finally got some photos of this nutty ohio trip up onto flickr a photographer i am surely not but hey everyone has gone to bed and the house is quiet i can t sleep not because i m wired up but more because i m wired down oddly tomorrow is our grand finale the last day for one stop early voting and unlike my counterparts who are each in their own way nursing pangs of anticipation and anxiety about it all i feel fine plans have been laid teams prepped assignments assigned in a way it s all out of our hands now yet in another we carry it all so how has the week gone for our humble project the numbers tell part of the story several hundred the first day to almost a thousand on friday the weekend stats are weird given that so many evcs early voting centers were closed half or all day our teams did lots of visibility work when evcs were closed like flyering cars and postering shelters and what my team dubbed the dorm storms targeting students with sign ups for monday rides the trajectory of numbers has been promising to be sure though not necessarily what we d projected the exercise of identifying any numeric targets had been arbitrary at best that s the trick about inventing a brand new thing you have nothing to compare it to no lessons to correct and everything to gain early voting is a new concept in and of itself never mind the fact that this golden week portion of it was the first time ever anywhere voters could register and vote at the same time so when t ate conceived of and initiated this idea he also took on the task of making everything up from scratch sure he assembled a dynamo team to do it with but still no one knew what to shoot for at least not in comparative terms that s not to sound defensive i m just sharing those realities of field organizing that anyone who s done it can relate to in spite of those deeper matters our teams and activities have been rocking it took a couple of days to hit our stride but once we did that shit got hot from allied groups to average voters everyone can feel it and they re buzzing about it reports from the field have all ended the same way this thing is gaining momentum and tomorrow we re gonna do even better in addition to my regional director role i ve been put on a bit of press officer duty and we ve been getting covered so i ve had lots of occasion to think and talk about thi s project the thing i keep reminding folks is that we can only track numbers of voters we physically take to the polls but those don t reflect the thousands of ohioans who learned about early voting thanks to our visibility materials media and people then took themselves to vote there s no telling how many voters hurried up and registered because our work reminded them that tomorrow is the last day that s not spin that s fact so we re feeling stoked and proud and energized about it all the whole concept of early voting still blows my mind and you just know it came at too crucial a political moment in too tense a place because those other guys tried to shut it down unsuccessfully but it still makes folks nervous that this could be the only year for early voting because some people are too antsy about it likely because it favours the types of folks whose voices are mostly unheard meanwhile it has been tremendously rewarding to help mobilize the very people whose belief in democracy will most benefit from this early voting scheme amy our field director has been comparing our one week initiative to a single election day which means tomorrow last day is like the final hour of a typical e day no holds barred blitz baby overdrive full steam home run analogy palooza basically we re gunning for some serious votes the teams i ve been overseeing couldn t be more ready for tomorrow they ve pimped up the vans like nobody s business and even rented a major megaphone system for one of them to be blaring loud and clear last chance to register and vote early people here at headquarters have been teasing me about the crushes i seem to have developed on my team leaders out there but with them turning out such kick ass organizing skills and energy day in and day out who the eff can blame me btw saw springsteen again today he stopped in columbus as part of a special tour for obama it was an incredible acoustic set under a beautiful warm fall sky granted we worked the cro wds for van sign ups and whatnot but still it sure felt nice to take a break from the frenzy to enjoy a simple outdoor concert i may not be his biggest fan but it has to be said the boss has never sounded better more importantly he gave what has to be one of the best albeit inadvertent political speech i have maybe ever heard no speechwriters no tele prompter no spin just a poet with heart movingly imploring ohioans to grab hold of the early voting advantage as a way to get obama elected because i want my america back i want my country back posted by pamused 13 17 0 comments 1 10 08 campaigning in ohio dispatch 2 as...