The Trail©

Stream of consciousness figments from an intern at the Charleston Kerry-Edwards HQ...

One of the volunteers phone banking tonight has a different main project. He and a friend have adopted what they're calling an "orphan precinct." He described it to me:

"It's got a lot of transients, a lot of rentals; people move in and out. The kind of place Republicans don't go."

Awesome. I've asked him to keep me posted. Movements are built on this kind of effort. A good example of movement building is The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. The authors are American correspondents for The Economist. They describe the rise of the bedrock foundation of grassroots organizations and think tank-oriented Beltway establishment that have turned conservativism from a fringe idea to the framing ideals of American politics. A blurb: "...this book provides a serious and thoughtful analysis of how we got where we are in our politics today." So says Senator John McCain, and he's not exaggerating.

In other news, a couple of kids from the University of Charleston showed up. They're part of a service learning class, and the class all must choose: Bush, Kerry or Voter Registration. We offer them free coffee. The Bush campaign offers them $50 a day to, ah, volunteer.

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