Hillary was drawing huge crowds all weekend even though the polls showed Obama opening up a big lead. Here's some footage of the line to get into her Sunday event at a Nashua, NH high school.
Things were really getting fired up on Sunday around the campaign office. Volunteers and staff were treated to some brief speeches by officeholders present to fire up the troops. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave an impassioned speech in the basement of Hillary's Nashua headquarters; he was also joined by Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and a few members of the Massachusetts legislature. When we were leaving the office, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) was also walking up to the office.
On Sunday, Emilio and I had the pleasure of working with a nice woman named Kim; I'll write more about her later. We did visibility at the Nashua high school where Hillary was holding her afternoon event and we also attended the event as well. Things were a bit different compared to the Friday morning rally. Hillary was more proactive at differentiating her record and experience with that of Senator Obama. Furthermore, she took dozens of questions from the audience. In fact, my feet were sore from standing through the whole thing! The questions were diverse but she handled them all like a candidate with a great command of the issues.
After the Hillary event, we spent most of the day canvassing some middle-class wards in Nashua and we finished up the night doing counter-visibility across the street from John Edwards' Meet and Greet event at Martha's Exchange, a popular Nashua restaurant. (They deserved it too; they were passing out flyers outside the Clinton afternoon event.)
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