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01/26/2004 Archived Entry: "Just got back from NH...."
Just got back from NH....
...and boy, are my truck's tires tired, or something.
I wish I could have posted more from the scene, but I was in hyper-drive pretty much from the time I got there until I left this morning. There was so damn much going on that it feels like I didn't stop for a minute.
We did our third town hall meeting last night (the second one I participated in), in a chilly, wind-driven Portsmouth. I gotta hand it to the intrepid people who were out with their Dean and Clark and Kucinich signs in what had to be 20-below wind chills.
We were at a disadvantage last night because the guy who ran the church hall insisted we be out of the hall precisely at 9 PM (the hall in Manchester on Friday let us go 90 minutes longer than our allotted time). As a result, bits of the show were being cut left and right - I only got to do one song, and we didn't have near as many guests as we presented on Friday).
We spent yesterday afternoon having lunch with and interviewing Steve Fowle, editor of the New Hampshire Gazette. Nice guy, and a wonderful guide to the local story behind the national headlines. He mentioned that the undecided vote is around 15 per cent, and that there are better than a dozen Republicans running against Bush in NH - most of them 'Goldwater conservatives.'
I left the hall last night almost immediately after the show in order to get back to the hotel in Nashua and file this morning's news for IEAmerica. Just my luck - I got lost and drove through the dark New Hampshire countryside for about an hour longer than I thought I would. Made it back to the hotel just before midnight, went to the bar and had a snack and a couple of beers with a bud from BartCop, and ended up filing the news this morning.
Except for putting gas in the tank in Massachusetts, I drove straight through from NH to LI. Got home here at pretty much the estimated time of 4:30, and I've been zoning out ever since.
I'll write more about NH as I remember it.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
wow... u need to drive faster. I used to be able to make it from Billerica, Ma to DC in just under 7 hours (427 miles).. cmon slacker pick up the pace :)
Posted by djdissent @ 01/26/2004 10:47 PM NY
