2008 Report from the Baltic Room
posted by on November 4 at 11:59 AM
The SECB just dropped by the Baltic Room, where a small crowd of earnest Obama volunteers is calling voters in the 43rd District to get out the vote for Obama. The scene down here is pretty sedate, with volunteers in their 30s and 40s handing out bottles of HonesTea and talking to voters. They’re targeting the 43rd because it has the highest number of Democrats and the lowest voter turnout of any legislative district in Seattle—a stat intern Mel Lotz called “embarrassing”; however, some of the targeted voters seem annoyed to be getting their 14th or 15th call from the Obama campaign.
“We get that you’re annoyed by us,” Lotz tells one person who’s tired of being hounded by Obama volunteers. “Get out and vote and we’ll stop calling you.” The campaign is setting up rides to polling places for people who can’t get there on their own.
The volunteers are pretty secretive about their scripts—campaign coordiators instructed phonebankers not to take the scripts outside the building, lest they fall into Republican hands. But one volunteer, Penny Bolton, does tell the SECB what phonebankers are supposed to do when the person they’ve called turns out to be a member of the tinfoilhat brigade (one person today asked her Obama’s position on selective vaccinations): Give the call to someone else.
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Want to stop getting annoying phone calls?
VOTE!
Man, how hard is that ...
"We get that you're annoyed by us. Get out and vote and we'll stop calling you."
Does that count as extortion? And do they get some sort of instant notification when someone at a particular telephone number votes?
Tough shiite, David.
Go vote and stop whining.
The fucking 43rd has the LOWEST TURNOUT!?! Christ! You goddamn hippies get the fuck out there and VOTE! You goddamn Nader-leg-humping 3rd party lovers man up, make the hard choice and VOTE! You fucktards that think there are no differences between the candidates...turn off the breathing machine and stop living your life as a vegetable.
This from a 43rd District VOTER WHO IS VASTLY SUPERIOR TO YOU IN EVERY WAY!
I'm guessing the low voter turnout in the 43rd is due to the university and kids who aren't around or connected enough to the local fabric to care.
it is HILARIOUS that the 43rd has the lowest turnout. All the cocky, mouthy, self-important hipsters in that district and you fuckers don't vote? If there's ever a draft, here's hoping most of the 43rd is first on the list.
Good point, Keo.
You fucking listless, apathetic college students who have, against all odds, managed to NOT care about Obama winning, SOBER UP AND VOTE!
Still VASTLY SUPERIOR TO YOU IN EVERY WAY DESPITE YOUR FUCKING YOUTH & PROBABLE GOOD LOOKS
We've lived in the 43rd for 34 years, and voted in every single primary and election. This has always been a largely Democratic-leaning area. I'm surprised and shocked it has a bad reputation for turnout.
We just got a call from one of those volunteers, and when I told her three people in our household had voted as Democrats, she sounded very relieved.
What everyone up ahead said. QUIT BITCHING AND VOTE, YOU STUPID MORONS. Otherwise the rest of us will have to live with Governor Dino Fucking Rossi for the next four years.