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Long day tomorrow

I'll be a pollworker in Minburn this time around. They were in need of extra help and Adel was covered. They told us in training Friday to be ready for anything.

 

Go Obama (although I have to keep my mouth shut tomorrow).

 

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  • I spent all of election day 1994

    driving around four or five precincts in Ames, scanning barcodes next to the names of people who’d already voted and then going somewhere to download those barcodes so the names could be removed from phone-banking lists.

    And at the end of all that I had to suffer through news reports of a massive Republican landslide.

    Let’s hope your experience will be more pleasant tomorrow!

    desmoinesdem  Mon 3 Nov 7:14 AM

    • Dm!

      That must’ve been horrible!

      I pulled an all nighter last night contacting all my friends and family, had to send out at least 40 emails!

      I’ll be so glad when this is all over!

      secondtonone  Mon 3 Nov 2:10 PM

      • what was funny but also sad was

        turnout was pretty good in Story County in 1994, which is of course a good sign for Democrats. I remember calling campaign HQ to check in during the day, reporting that turnout seemed to be good in Ames. The person I talked to was upbeat, because turnout was supposedly also good in Wapello County.

        When the returns came in, Bonnie Campbell won four out of Iowa’s 99 counties: Johnson, Story, Wapello and Des Moines (where Burlington is). So our optimism was misplaced.

        But one thing I learned from 1994 was that in a tidal wave, even the good candidates get swamped. Tom Harkin is very lucky that he was up for re-election in 1996 and not 1994, because he would have lost in 1994.

        desmoinesdem  Mon 3 Nov 3:20 PM

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