3 Days of Crazy

As Karen said below, today was the big kickoff of the campaign. Basically that entails trucking the entire campaign across the entire state. The main idea of this 3-day tour is to go to events in all of New Hampshire's counties-- which would be an easy afternoon, if we were campaigning in Rhode Island. As it is it's a bit crazy, but we seem to be holding up well. At least I am – I'm only going to attend about half of the events.

This morning we all piled in the cars and headed down “New Hampshire's Autobahn,” I-89, to the New Hampshire Technical Institute for a Press Conference. Having won the press's full and undying support, we jaunted off to the Downtown Market Days in Concord. We met a lot of interesting folks, and Jay chatted with lot of people. The only problem was that he kept getting into productive, in-depth discussions with people about Iraq, Health Care, Energy, and all kinds of stuff. Whatever happened to “shake the hand, kiss the baby, and on to the next one”? I'm telling you, these “issues” really get in the way of proper politicking.

While in Concord we paid a quick visit to our friends at the NHDP headquarters, leaving a swath of literature and stickers in our wake. We also stopped at the Merrimack Restaurant, where we met with some wonderful folks from grassrootsandgranite. There's nothing as chic as hanging out at a cafe blogging the afternoon away, and these three made it look good. I would say it was very European but my pollsters tell me that European is “out” this decade, so I'll just say it was fun.

After that I headed home while Jay (the candidate) and his son Jay (that other guy who looks just like him) went to an event with the Moose Mountain Democrats. I don't know what happened there, but from the name I can only hope that there was an actual moose involved.