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Nov
I’ve said much of what I want to say about the events of yesterday on Facebook, mostly in the wee hours, and I’ll paste that in below. A good friend has said that he can’t wait for me to process this whole trip to the US that I have had because he wants to
18 October – 21 Days Three weeks from today is Election Day. Here’s how it feels to me. Hillary will win but not by as much as might be expected. Some of the people who were willing to hold their noses and vote for her to save the Republic will now skip voting for president
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Oct
7 October I’ve just arrived “home” from watching the Washington Nationals fall to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League Division Series. My hands (from clapping), throat (from yelling), and heart (from losing) are all a bit sore. And what do I find when I check in with the internet? A
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6 October Sorry, kind readers, for going silent for a while. When last we met I had arrived in the Blue (Democratic leaning) oasis of Asheville, North Carolina on my road-trip through Trumpland. My destination was Nashville and, more specifically, a first-ever meeting with my birth-mother. So that was strange and good and exceedingly hard,
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24 September So I missed a day, it was inevitable. I’m writing from the dining room table of my Couchsurfing host in a suburban development outside of Asheville, North Carolina. Yesterday I was first awoken before dawn by two men greeting one another in the car park – strangers saying good morning, and one of
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Sep
I had every intention to be camping right now but a wrong turn found me driving narrow, winding country roads as the sky flared in the pink and pale orange of sunset. So instead I’m drinking cheap beer in an overpriced motel room outside of Appomattox watching an episode of The Andy Griffith Show I’ve
21 September I learned last night around this time that I have cause to go to Nashville. So I’m still in Alexandria having spent much of the day plotting my course. This morning I took the water taxi from Alexandria to the hotel and convention centre at National Harbor – that’s across the Potomoc River
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20 September 2016 Hi. I’m not really sure what to write about today. My organiser is off at GOTV (Get Out the Vote) Training in some remote part of Virginia, so the house/office is quiet and has been all day. The phone bank captains are getting the usual Tuesday evening effort going in the usual
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19 September 2016 Sometime last week I followed a link on Facebook and registered my interest in seeing Michelle Obama speak at George Mason University. As I stood in the kilometre-long queue, ever grateful the weather had cooled, I started wondering when I last attended a political rally with a speaker guarded by the Secret