According to Sarah, there is a phone banker from our Aspinwall office who yesterday treated herself to a full size candy bar after every single sheet of calls she finished. (There are maybe 12 calls on a sheet.)
And speaking of candy, did you see this news story about the Pittsburgh resident* who denied candy to trick-or-treaters who were children of Obama supporters?
And speaking of Obama supporters…what a cast of characters Anne and I are working with in Etna, PA!
There’s 82-year-old Saul, a wheelchair-bound, oxygen tank-toting WWII veteran phone banker who gets saucy with the ladies in between calls. (He invited a 90-year-old canvasser (!) to have a seat on his lap.) Saul was the last volunteer to leave tonight; it took us and his wife (who has mobility issues herself) 15 minutes to get him into the van when he finally headed out. And he’ll be back at 10am.
Yet another truly disappointing move by Republicans…today, I received an e-mail from my friend Samir with an update from Minnesota:
I’m working on one of the most hotly contested congressional races in the country for a guy [Ashwin Madia] who – if elected – would be the only Indian-American in Congress.
Ashwin is a veteran of the Marine Corps, the Iraq war, and the JAG corps. He’s running what sounds like an awesome, positive, issue-driven campaign. And it’s working – polls have shown him narrowly ahead of his Republican opponent in MN-3, incumbent Erik Paulsen.
So in a turn to negative campaigning of (in my opinion) the most unacceptable kind, the National Republican Campaign Committee has put out an ad against Ashwin in which experts say his skin tone was deliberately darkened. Watch the local news coverage below:
