Scoping out the volunteers

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Each campaign conforms to crude stereotypes. The biggest campaign corps belongs to Howard Dean, whose volunteers are overwhelmingly white and mostly female. They wear old clothes, exude a crunchy vibe and spend a lot of time on the dating website Friendster.com. They're basically the rich kids on campus who pretend they have no money (the Dean campaign parking lot is full of SUVs and Saabs). It's their insularity — plus the Saabs — that make them universally hated among the other volunteers.

Wesley Clark's volunteers are predominately male and haven't showered in days, and many look like they're still working through their Y2K provisions. The Clark campaign also boasts the only volunteer dog, an underfed beagle named Truman. The future lobbyists are at John Kerry's headquarters, where things hum along like a '90s Internet start-up run by well-dressed New Republic readers.

The sweet-natured, churchgoing college interns at the Richard Gephardt campaign are far outnumbered by the brawny volunteer ironworkers. Joe Lieberman's nerdy, beleaguered staff, which is the best-liked in town, works out of the most squalid office.

Dennis Kucinich's volunteers — smart misfits who live in a co-op and make decisions by consensus — oddly get along best with the John Edwards folks, who are preppy, racially diverse, good-looking Southern jocks.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/timep.volunteers.tm/

Well, I laughed, so I thought you might as well. Now I know what has attracted all the folks to the Dean campaign -- it's the girls. lol what can I say, rich girls who dress poor and drive nice cars while exuding a 'crunchy vibe' -- that get's me all hot and bothered. Seriously, I'd like to meet a girl like that.

[bobbieinok]

1. CNN - make all candidates (volunteers) look goofy

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