And, BTW, BRAVO! I just hope the Repug incumbants don’t read this!

I worked for one of the most successful incumbents in Washington State, who also too an enormous amount of political shit from her opposition (the Insurance Fascists) and she kicked way more ass than anyone could get for the money we spent. Her name? Deborah Senn, the Insurance Commissioner for the State of Washington.

Always disdained by the media and the Establishment, she was enormously popular. And she got re-elected in WA in 1996 with MORE votes than stupid Bill Clinton!

Why? Simple. SHE LISTENED TO PEOPLE AND DID WHAT THEY WANTED. She did not pander to a lowest common denominator, no , she LISTENED. She didn’t take polls. She didn’t did focus groups. EVERY FREAKING DAY OF HER JOB she listened to citizens who were not getting served by the Isnrance Nazis and she fought on their behalf.

Mind blowing concept to the netrooters, the dc-mafias, and the the people who micromanage and microanalyze. If Stupid Joe had just been more attentitive to the PEOPLE WHO VOTE IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES Ned lamont would not have been necessary.

Listening. It’s the new black. Deal with it.

Sounds as if you have the categories sorted out pretty well.

At least in OH, they don’t even want you parking your car within 100′ of the polling place, if it has any campaign advertising on it at all.

Speaking for the rather typical small township precinct we vote in, I also agree that, perhaps in semi-rural areas, and probably in all New England cept within bustling city areas, trying to hand out campaign literature near polling places on election day, even in a legal location, might very well be a HUGE turnoff to voters.

The same can also be true of attempts to conduct exit-polls. Many people get really cranky, especially if the campaign worker isn’t recognized as “local” (easy to tell – don’t even try playing dress-up or -down games)

At least in OH, I think it would be very wise for campaign workers to be very much attuned to voters’ body language, and to back off if you don’t feel welcome.

I guess *ilson is a special case. Must have a world-class charming-smile routine going there.
But then, we all suspected as much, didn’t we? *g

too sleepy to proofread right now without increasing the chances of making an utter fool of me-self. ue get this as it is. hope some makes sense and is at least a little helpful.

I sooooo admire you folks who physically get out there take the hands-on jobs for the wonderful progressive candidates FDL’s locating. I did that so many years. I just can’t any more, for multiple reasons, but I do admire you folks more than you’ll ever know.

))))))THANKYOU((((((

this spring I was involved in a rough primary — in addition to being nice and cheerful, I also paid off the opposition paid-volunteers to slack off and I also made opposition signage disappear… but I smiled! genuine hardball politics …

*ilson- sorry not to have responded sooner, but I was talking types on the next thread. So, that is really really interesting!!!! Ya know, I wish you would write an FDL post that would give all of us “newbies” a few hints, a few good stories, whatever, based on your long campaigning experiences. I would love to read your perspective in more detail. xxoo

Anybody catch the great job done by Hackett on Tweetie tonight?

Hackett utterly destroyed a sputtering R-dweeb running for a House seat from somewhere in a land called TX(?)
Hackett did it all, never losing his smile & swagger. You can tell Tweetie likes him a lot. They played off one-another like old pals. It’s a wonder the repugger didn’t cry on camera. I wonder if he’s still curled up in a fetal position in the studio green room. Hey Mehlman! Housekeeping in MSNBC.

REFRESHING after jr.s weirdly disturbing presser yestidee to watch the difference tw’ swagger & stagger, language & lingoish, smile & smirk. Hackett’s a natural. Jr’s unable even to read simple sentences any more, & totally unable to concoct one on his own. I’d swear they must be trying to have him use one a those refrigerator-magnet word-match games. He’s makin’ everyone suffer on both sides of the aisle.

Tweetie offered up a powderpuff question inviting Hackett to smack down Sherrod Brown. Without batting an eye, Hackett swept aside the silly question and substituted a SOLID, RINGING ENDORSEMENT of Sherrod(!) – still with a twinkle in his eye, genuine smile, and a relaxed chuckle.

Tweetie also had Lamont’s repub. opponent on, & quickly went into schmoozing & giggling, towel-snapping mode. He likes that guy also. It’s gotta be hard to get viewers to identify with a repubnikn card-sharp and especially difficult to make voters sympathize with the guy, but Tweetie succeeded. I swan ta’ goodness! Whowoodathunkit!?!

T’was especially sweet because they both were openly picking on Lierman like crazy behind his back, as well as repub. party honchos who’re not-so-secretly backing Joenope instead of their own candidate. How’s rover gonna fight that stuff?! I’m thinking outright ridicule like that, on major telly network, might go a long way twd derailing the Lieberchoo-choo. Whatever “image” he still has is gonna tarnish somethin’ awful in no time flat, if this outrageous conduct is allowed to continue on the telly.

Lovely. Just lovely. Tee hee!

C&L already has a clip up from Hackett’s appearance. Enjoy!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..ardball-2/

lotus –

Are you a thousand petal variety?

I’ve kinda sorta wanted to discuss that stuff, in relation to spirituality (good!) and stress (bad!) — and how our immune systems respond to both.

Duh, uh-ruh . . . huh?

(with her vedge for brain, the flowah struggles sometimes)