Saturday, November 02, 2002 :::
I just got back from New Hampshire, and boy are my legs tired.
That's from a lit-drop and a stand-out, not from getting there and back. Harvard provided a bus, though I had to help with directions.
UPDATE: I got me some sleep, and figure I'll tell a little more. This was a trip sponsored by the Harvard Republican Club. I believe I was the only non-student, but they had quite a few people from other schools -- one from MIT, at least three from Tufts, and at least two from BU -- we totaled 11.
We went up to the Sununu HQ in Nashua -- not only is that close to Massachusetts, it also seems to be where they've decided the swing votes are. The 11 of us paired off and lit-dropped almost all of a ward, of which Nashua has around ten.
After lunch, we stood at a busy intersection with signs for an hour or so -- maybe a bit longer. I don't know how much good that does at this stage of the campaign, since I don't think anyone's going to go to the poll and say "gosh, I don't even recognize these names".
As far as giving directions to the bus driver, we went out there by getting route 2 west to 95 north to 3 north. We came back on 3 south, then turned onto 95 north. If you're reading this without knowing Massachusetts, this isn't an unreasonable thing to do -- 95 circles Boston, so 95 north at that point goes mostly east, and you can go to I-93 (which goes directly through the city) from there. But what had happened was that the bus driver thought he was on 95 south, and was looking for route 2. When we passed 93, I went up to the bus driver and got him back in the right direction, guiding him through Somerville once we got off of 93.
::: posted by Steven at 6:08 PM
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