456 Dean Volunteers working to GOTV in New Hampshire elections today

[CMT]

456 volunteers of the Howard Dean campaign are working to elect Democrats in New Hampshire in municipal elections for Mayor, school board, and other local offices in 13 New Hampshire cities and towns.

Team Dean is at work in such towns/cities as Bedford, Claremont, Concord, Dover, Keene, Manchester, and Portsmouth knocking on doors, driving voters to the polls, and phone banking.

This is a great effort that the Dean campaign is extending to help Democrats today in local electinos in New Hampshire, but also a test run for Dean's own GOTV efforts for the January primary.

http://www.blogforamerica.com

[Rose Siding]

1. This sounds like it would be for the *good* of the party

rather than to its detriment, as has been the recent criticism of Dean. Any other Dem campaigns doing anything so helpful and constructive?

[Eloriel]

3. Of course not

First, they don't have the workers. Second, they're too busy trying to get SEIU not to endorse Dean, and dreaming up what other lies to tell about Dean by misrepresenting his remarks.

Eloriel

[bleedingheart]

2. That's great!

It also insures that voters stay on the voting rolls...at least in my state.

[Atlant]

4. As far as I know, the Dean Machine is also working in Nashua.

In Nashua, elections are officially "non-partisan" (nudge-nudge,
wink-wink), but the only people I know who believe that pretty
little lie are the members of the City Democratic Committee.

The Republicans always make it clear who the "correct" candidates are.

Atlant

[Atlant]

10. My wife spent 45 minutes at one of our election wards...

My wife spent 45 minutes at one of our election wards,
canvassing out-coming voters about their presidential
preferences. She reports that in this time, only *2*
voters stated that they supported Bush, and one of them
was qualifying his support with "but we'll see how this
war thing turns out".

By comparison, many, many people were supporting the
generic Demoocratic candidate, and several of them
shouted "Dean" at her. She was especially amused by
a little old lady who was *VERY* enthusiastic about
Howard Dean.

(This was Ward 3 in Nashua, an "upper-lower" to "middle"
class area. Lots of single-family homes but lots of multi-
family homes and kids who get lunch assistance in school
as well.)

Atlant

[hang a left]

5. anybody manning those damn electronic voting machines?

[Hep]

6. In NC, a different story

We have an organized effort here today to man the pollsites with Dean petitions. We're working to get Dean's name on the ballot in NC should his campaign choose to not take matching funds. NC has among the most restrictive ballot access laws in the nation. McGovern wasn't on our ballot in 72 and Nader wasn't on it in 2000. Dean fans across the state are gathering three times the 10,000 signatures from registered dems required to put him on the ballot.

Go DEan!

[jburton]

9. Houston TX, also! n/t

[realFedUp]

7. Cool

everyone likes teamwork.

[JNelson6563]

8. Excellent work!!

Positive and constructive. Delightful.

Julie