This diary will be very short and will deliberately break some rules.
Obama may or may not be at present farther behind in the polls than the polls indicate. We have to be honest and acknowledge we've had a rough couple weeks.
But Paul Hackett's Diary is a substantive misrepresentation. I can't understand how it got on the Rec list.
Let me repeat a few highlights of what I have observed here in Scioto County.
- For the first time we have an active, organized volunteer effort geared towards the top of the ticket in Scioto County. There was very little GOTV for Kerry (he stil won 47% in the County and took Potsmouth);
- The Obama campaign has rented a large and constantly staffed office on Chilicothe Street;
- We have about 20 volunteers committed to canvasing this weekend and are still getting more;
- When we talk to base voters, they are with us.
Again-I'm not minimizing the difficulty of our task and the recent blitz of not so subliminal ads about black men leering at white girls and being disrespectful to white women won't help. There's a lot about this campaign that remains to be done.
To get a better story see my previous diaries on Scioto County. I really have to question the wisdom of having Paul Hackett's diary on the rec list. It's both offensive and demoralizing.
My response to John King's Hit Piece on Scioto county
Scioto County: Yes we will