3/3/08

Eve before "Firewall Tuesday" oh that has changed again; What are the Clinton's calling it now?


The front page of Ohio's largest newspaper says it all,
All Eyes on Ohio, but the most ironic article is "How to vote in March 4 Primary". The NY Times published an article titled on Sunday titled: "In Ohio, Tense Race Hinges on Grass-Roots Organizers"

CLEVELAND — The callers, volunteers at a Clinton campaign field office here, had some exciting news last week for the randomly dialed Democrats on the other end of the line. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York was appearing at a high school in Toledo the next day, and there was still plenty of room for cheering spectators.

But after 30 minutes of cold-calling, the volunteers, a mix of soft-spoken professionals and grizzled unionists, were beginning to wilt from the rejections.

“Oh really?” one woman at the phone bank was overheard saying again and again. “Even though he’s only been in the Senate three years? Well I’m sorry you feel that way.”

Not far away, a similar phone-banking session was taking place at a campaign office for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, but the task at hand was much different.

There, callers were trying to work their way through a list of people who were eager to volunteer but had been waiting days for an assignment. Some of the 100 or so names had been collected during an Obama appearance the previous night that drew 6,000 people to the Cleveland Convention Center.

In Texas the NY Times today published this article about the Texas 2-STEP primary/caucus system titled: "In Texas, Clinton’s Veterans Test Obama’s Rookies".

But just a few blocks away, Althea Dixon and her cousin Cathy Conley-Vanhooks, with little initial support from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign, began diligently mounting the opposition. They set up in a donated former quickie-loan store, plugged in their computers and got the place cleaned up for a celebrity cameo by the actor Samuel L. Jackson, who was filming a movie in nearby Shreveport, La.

The women did not seem to mind that their tiny office, with its wooden cactus decorations and plastic flowers, was not even listed on Mr. Obama’s campaign Web site. Nor that the candidate himself had no plans to appear anywhere near it before Tuesday’s primary, a contest fought in recent days with a fierceness that has few parallels in the state’s political history.

“I just felt that if I could be a dot on the ‘i’ in this thing, I should be,” said Ms. Dixon, 56, a graduate student who left school for the semester to devote herself to the campaign and calls herself an “Obama grandmama.”

I will end this pre-primary post with this another cartoon that appears to say it all.


Caption should read:
"I will change into anything you want me to be to be "my President"

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