New Orleans: At this point in the quadrennial electoral wars we are all searching tea leaves in some real earnest for any sign. The polls are a mishmash of one or the other, if not knotted in a deadlocked tie. The other night coming back to town I stopped by and talked to my folks for …
Month: October 2004
The Deserted Battleground Missouri
St. Louis: Two months before we SEIU Local 100 and SEIU Local 880 had decided to have our 17th Annual Staff/Board Retreat in a battleground state, where we could combine our evaluation and planning of our work with some real time GOTV experience for our leaders and staff. In the luck of the draw Illinois, the …
Ohio – GOTV — Battleground Zero
Columbus, Ohio: The ACORN National Association Board wisely decided to have its fall meeting in Columbus because it sensed that Ohio could be ground zero in the critical last weeks before the United States presidential election. The polls had been bouncing around like ping pong balls with Kerry ahead one day and Bush the next. Both …