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A Pitch reporter volunteers for the McCain campaign
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Edited | RBH Nov 19, 2008 12:38am |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Monday, October 27, 2008 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The next time I went to the office, the windows had been smashed out with a rock half the size of a football.
McCain was in town that morning for a campaign appearance with 200 invited guests. The women at the campaign headquarters hadn't been invited.
Over the next hour, I realized that most of the volunteers came in with specific ideas about what was and was not a waste of their time, and most had decided that they could best help the Republicans by lounging in the office and drinking diet soda.
"I'm a little worried. The week that woman's had," one volunteer said of Sarah Palin. The vice-presidential debate was that night. "If they asked Katie Couric any of those questions, she wouldn't know. Nobody knows that stuff."
The window-repair truck arrived — with an Obama sticker on its bumper. The women were certain that this was evidence of a conspiracy. One woman, in a white blouse (with an elephant on the front over her heart and a bald eagle on the back, both outlined in glitter), wanted to take a picture of the truck. The other volunteers stopped her, afraid of starting any trouble. This led to a debate about the cultlike reverence of Obama's supporters for Obama.
"I'll vote for him, and the world will be just a paradise, and all my problems will be solved," one mocked.
"Sure," Glitter Blouse said. "If you want to vote for an Arab Muslim." |
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