The New Hampshire thing

[rodbailey]

is getting some attention. Check out http://www.opednews.com/ for a story that just showed up today. Farrell told me he's sent out about 4000 press releases to media contacts and he has some kind of Gore ad ready to play on some web sites (although I haven't seen it yet). As I mentioned on an earlier thread, I'm starting to get a "better" feeling about this after spending an evening making phone calls to folks in NJ. Tonight I'll be calling folks in PA. The Gore supporters that were there a few months back still seem to be sticking with him, even though he hasn't said he wants to get into the race. Hopefully a decent showing in the NH primary might change his mind and show him how easy it will be to get into the race and not have to go through all the silliness he doesn't like. Keep the Faith!

[rodbailey]

1. A couple more things to add

Just saw these two articles in today's Washington Post that relate to Gore, on the one hand, and the primary scene on the other.

http://bolg.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/12/al_gore_takes_on_karl_rove.html and
http://bolg.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/18/the_new_hampshire_voter.html

Both give some interesting insight into what Gore is doing for the Democratic folks at the moment (actually I got the letter they referred to from him) and how the voter profile is changing in NH. Not sure what it all means, but someday we may look back on this sort of article and say - hmmm, so that's why he did so well in NH (please don't wake me up from the dream at the moment).

[Pastiche423]

2. Rod -

I'm getting "The page cannot be displayed" for both of those links.

Is it just me?

[rodbailey]

3. Yeah, I got that too, when I just tried, but

if you go to www.washingtonpost.com and then click on the politics link and look for their blogs you'll see the blogs for "the sleuth" and you can find the story about Gore going after Rove; then, on the "the trail" blog, you have to go to their past day's entries (calendar as you page to the bottom of the page), Dec. 18, and you'll find the New Hampshire story. Don't know why those others wouldn't work. I'm a regular at the Washington Post and I've "logged in" there a long time ago so I'm not sure whether that's why the links wouldn't work or not. I actually noticed that I had the one on New Hampshire a bit incorrect, but when I typed in the correct one on the address line just now, it gave me the "page cannot be displayed" message also. I can't understand this stuff. It's just 1's and 0's moving around, right.

[Pastiche423]

4. Because I had such a hard time finding the articles

I am going to post the 1st one here. (W/o the comments)

Al Gore Serves as Pitch Man, Takes On Karl Rove


Since the Democrats' strategy for increasing their majority in the House is to run against President Bush's policies (again), who better to help them make the case than the Man Who Won the Popular Vote, Mr. Al Gore himself?

Gore already has helped the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee with email and direct-mail solicitations. Today, the Nobel Peace Price and Academy Award winner sent out a hard-hitting email pitch with the subject: "The Truth."

"The truth is it took years to drive our country so far off track and it will take a lot of hard work and determination to get it back on track," Gore writes, winding up for the big pitch.

Condemning "Karl Rove and his Republican hatchet men," Gore writes: "This perverse political culture -- dangerously hostile to reason and knowledge -- is what enabled George W. Bushto use fear and lies to mislead our nation into the Iraq war, ignore the threat of global warming, block promising stem cell research and ignore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."

Gore implores Democratic donors to give now so their contributions will count toward the Democrats' crucial end-of-year fundraising reports. (And - bonus - if they do, the DCCC, the House Democratic fundraising arm, will "DOUBLE your gift.")

While he sits out the 2008 presidential campaign, the former vice president has been "helpful in a variety of different ways" to the DCCC, says one Democratic operative, and there are "possible plans in the works for other things."


http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/12/al_gore_takes_on_karl_rove.html


Is the 2nd article titled, "The New New Hampshire Voter"?

[rodbailey]

5. Yes,

and you're doing great work here. Me, I just made 57 phone calls to folks in Pennsylvania who had, probably, signed onto the draftgore.com website sometime in the past. Of the people I actually talked to, 21 were supportive and a number of those said they'd go to the web site and donate; 4 were negative (had moved on to another candidate, etc.) and I left messages on 32 phones. One of the messages I left last night turned into a volunteer to help make phone calls. That was a person from NJ who will now be making phone calls to people in Michigan. Go figure!! And, I know of the approx. 3500 emails I sent out over the past couple of days to NY folks that several have already donated or sent me back an e-mail saying they would donate. Not a huge percentage based on the total number I sent out, but then, I don't know what a lot of them did with the info. in the email. They may have gone to the website and I'd never know it. All in all, I'm encouraged because both the fellow in NH and I thought most of these people from web site petitions would have lost interest in Gore and moved on. But, just the opposite seems to be the case.

[Pastiche423]

6. A huge kudos to you

for all of the work you are doing, especially the phone calls!

I hate phones for the most part, although I love the phone calls to my dad three thousand miles away.

In the NH article, did you mean to bring attention to the changes in the citizens there since 2000?

[rodbailey]

7. Yes,

but I'm not sure what it all means, except that you can't draw on the patterns of the past to figure out what might be happening this year. If anything, I'm guessing, and based partly on earlier polls I had seen, the situation is still fluid. And, if the voters are somewhat younger and financially better off, maybe they are more committed to the climate issue than older voters might be. We're all just looking for anything that might suggest Gore would do well there.