{"id":339,"date":"2008-02-05T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/02\/05\/obama-ma08-cambridge-hits-the-polls\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:09:39","slug":"obama-ma08-cambridge-hits-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/02\/obama-ma08-cambridge-hits-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama MA&#8217;08: Cambridge hits the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasty rain today (so much for my hand-painted sign \ud83d\ude41 ), but turnout looks pretty strong. Here in Ward 4, Precinct 1, we were counting 186 ballots by 9am &#8212; very brisk voting rate, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Did visibility at the polls early morning (7-9am). Our small signs were disintegrating in the rain, and someone ran off with one. I was then sent out to Central Square with a ginormous, waterproof Obama face. The weather was literally dampening everyone&#8217;s mood, but we got a few good honks. We&#8217;ve been handing out copies of the Kennedys&#8217;, Kerry&#8217;s, and Patrick&#8217;s endorsements, but I&#8217;d be somewhat surprised if they change anyone&#8217;s minds, especially the independents we&#8217;re targeting with gusto. Stickers were a big, big hit, especially of course with kids (and thus their parents).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2008\/02\/photo_020508_001.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2008\/02\/photo_020508_001.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Visibility at the polls' \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2008\/02\/photo_020508_007.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2008\/02\/photo_020508_007.thumbnail.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this (the Middle East \/ ZuZu&#8217;s) has got to be the nicest and coolest staging location I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasty rain today (so much for my hand-painted sign \ud83d\ude41 ), but turnout looks pretty strong. Here in Ward 4, Precinct 1, we were counting 186 ballots by 9am &#8212; very brisk voting rate, I think. Did visibility at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/02\/obama-ma08-cambridge-hits-the-polls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}