The Trail©

Overheard on the phone earlier today:

"Well, we only got that set up in August. We're Democrats—we don't have any money. I mean, we don't have George Soros giving millions of dollars. Our contributors are limited to two thousand dollars. Most Democrats don't have two thousand dollars."

I handed out the last of our bumper stickers today. Told my boss we needed more. Reply: "There's a stack in the back. That's rare—we need some more of something and we actually have more."

Actually, we've got a lot of money. There are six thousand people on staff. Just this morning has been supremely hectic. I have run hundreds of messages just today; everything from the National Headquarters getting an updated payroll list to Emily's List sending volunteers in from D.C. to a gentlemen in the middle of a tiny town who wanted us to call up John Kerry and have him come out there and reassure all his neighbors that John Kerry is not going to take their guns.

So, it's not a lack of funds. We simply have a lot of voters. We are pretty much guaranteed a quarter of a million votes in this election, and that's just in West Virginia, which, despite being a battleground, is relatively small. We need a little under three hundred thousand to win.

Sean Madden wandered in this morning, too. He's been doing data entry all day while I answer phones. At lunch, we decided that Michael Moore is Kevin Smith's alter ego, or possibly his evil twin. Consider: Michael Moore is Kevin Smith, but more so. More talent. More of an ass. More disheveled facial hair. Weighs more. His name is Moore. Scary, isn't it?

So I've been telling my life story to a woman named Ghee. Here she is:

She's just returned from her 40th wedding anniversary on the southwest plateau. Hiked Moab, Zion, Flaming Gorge. Between Ghee and a boy on center from Colorado, I'm talking about Utah so much I'm beginning to remember why I was so desperate to leave.

Ghee's eloquent.

"It's not who we are November 2nd. It's who we are November 3rd. It's that as soon as the election is over, we're all friends again, all Americans.

"Until the next election, anyway."

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