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From Mass.:
On Sunday, a large pickup truck circled our neighborhood playing pro-Hillary messages over a loudspeaker in English and Spanish. I was impressed with the tactic, but didn’t really see how disturbing my morning coffee would change my vote.
Arkansas:
In the lead up to Super Tuesday, I saw 4-6 Ron Paul ads over the last couple of weeks and one Hilliary Clinton ad last night. Hilliary herself paid a visit to Arkansas last week, giving a speech in Little Rock. That’s been the extent of active campaigning in Arkansas visible to someone who has been paying attention to the presidential races.
And New York City:
No Hillary presence at all around that part of Park Slope. Answer might actually be that Hillary’s supporters are likely older and have jobs. The Obama people seemed college aged and probably have more flexible schedules.
Full dispatches after the jump.
Here’s a brief take on the view from Fayetteville Arkansas as of 11 am CST on Super Tuesday.
Fayetteville, a college town, is a liberal bastion in Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional District, the most conservative district in the state. In the lead up to Super Tuesday, I saw 4-6 Ron Paul ads over the last couple of weeks and one Hilliary Clinton ad last night. Hilliary herself paid a visit to Arkansas last week, giving a speech in Little Rock. That’s been the extent of active campaigning in Arkansas visible to someone who has been paying attention to the presidential races. I have yet to see a yard sign or a campaign button.
Over the last couple of days I’ve been doing a casual poll of the activists I ran into, folks to the left of the Democratic Party who have been active for years in the peace movement, environmental issues and so forth. The unanimous favorite there was Kucinich, with John Edwards as the second choice of some. Given how things stand in the Democratic race right now though, the choices were five voting for Obama and three still undecided, with one of the undecideds leaning toward Obama. Of special note, the Obama supporters included two Hispanic women, one Black woman, one White woman, and one Hispanic male. The undecideds were one Hispanic woman, one White woman and one White male. The youngest person in this group was in her thirties, the oldest was 58 and the majority were in their forties.
When I went to vote this morning, in the most liberal precinct in liberal Fayetteville, there was only one other voter there and one more came in when I was leaving. The poll worker said that people were coming in waves and that there had been some fairly busy times. I asked if we would have a record turnout like those seen in other states and he said it was too early to tell. Unlike the last couple of presidential elections, there were no volunteers standing across the street from the polling place waving campaign signs.
I am in no position to judge how much any of this is representative of the larger picture in Arkansas or around the country. So I’m simply passing on what I’ve seen of Super Tuesday in Northwest Arkansas.
Thanks,
ArkansasIMCista
Around 9 am, near my polling place in Park Slope there were ONLY people with Obama signs out. They were nice enough, pretty subdued. But no Hillary presence at all around that part of Park Slope.
Answer might actually be that Hillary’s supporters are likely older and have jobs. The Obama people seemed college aged and probably have more flexible schedules.
Then I took the train to Union Square where I expected to see more Obama supporters but it was exclusively union people for Hillary. Didn’t get the name of the union.
My girlfriend got to union square about an hour ahead of me. She stopped to talk with Hillary supporters and was joined by a young african american girl who said she had voted for Hillary. A passing older African American guy yelled at her that she was a “traitor to her race.”
That’s all I got,
Mike
I read your MA post, and I just wanted to add that perhaps the comment wasn’t in reference to the war, but a real raptor. Although I wasn’t the canvasser who knocked on your correspondent’s door, I was canvassing for Obama in North Somerville on Saturday where a red tailed hawk was circling the neighborhood. It swooped in and killed a pigeon as we were wrapping up our route. I assumed it was an omen, I’m just not sure what it meant.
As for the campaign here, I’ve seen a lot of manpower from Obama, and a lot of resoruces. There was a huge number of canvassers out on the street. Ever mailbox, however, had a Hillary postcard. On Sunday, a large pickup truck circled our neighborhood playing pro-Hillary messages over a loudspeaker in English and Spanish. I was impressed with the tactic, but didn’t really see how disturbing my morning coffee would change my vote.
-A Canvasser from the Commonwealth.