My Time in NC

A bit of house keeping before I start regularly blogging again.

The campaign was an amazing experience and I am so glad that as a Brit I was so warmly welcomed by the campaign. I met some amazing people, staff, volunteers, door knockers, rally attendees and voters.

There was a lot of energy around the campaign. I can't believe I worked an 80+ hour week (I currently feel a bit rough when I scratch 40 hours). I made some great friends and got to see a real Presidential campaign in action in a state the provided President Obama with his closest victory.

Seeing as I was told I couldn't blog on the campaign I'm not sure if I should talk about what went on. I have very little insider knowledge about the campaign. I had my own little jobs and worked on them hard. Its a long time ago now anyway so I shan't bore you. Except to say that for all the computer wizardry and ingenious ways of maximising the affectiveness of the campaign it was all down to the enthusiasm of the regular door knocking volunteers.

Sure the camapaign was excellent at channelling voters enthusiasm in exactly the right directions and without it NC probably wouldn't have been won. However the people I was working with and talking to everyday were so positive, so eager to get out there and help a Democrat win North Carolina for the first time in 32 years. It looks as if it payed off as Nate Silver wrote at the time, doors knocked gets more votes. Without the enegry of volunteers giving up weekends and making calls from home then the campaign in NC would have been lost before it began and it was ally down to the kinda of candidate then Senator Obama was (and I intended this to be a non-partisan blog).

My normal blogging will resume looking at President Obama's administration aswell as the off-year elections, mid-terms and because its never too early; talent scouting the Republican field for a 2012 Presidential Run.

Thank you for hanging in there. You can all breathe a collective sigh of relief now.