Day Seven Recap - Saturday, January 5th

Believe it or not, this was the hotel I was staying at in Nashua along with my other classmates and about 75 members of the Arkansas Travelers, a group of Hillary supporters from Arkansas. You can read the Nashua Telegraph article here.

We began Saturday by having Professor Dante Scala, author of one of the books we have read for this class, lead us in a discussion of his theory of New Hampshire presidential primaries. During our discussion, the fire alarm in the hotel went off; however, we were assured that the fire was contained and we continued class. After our discussion we were dropped off at our campaigns and I didn't dwell on the fire much.

The campaign office was buzzing like never before. There must have been 200 or so people in the office and dozens more in buses outside the office. People had come in from the Boston, New York City, and Washington DC areas, among others, to work on Hillary's campaign for the day and get out the vote! People were constantly coming and going and I wouldn't be surprised if 500 or more volunteers came through our office on Saturday.

The five of us were put on a bus with a group of people that came in from Cape Cod for the day; however, before getting out to our destination, we found out that the hotel fire had spread and we were without a place to stay. We were brought back to the hotel and gathered our things. We were then moved to a Radisson hotel in northern Massachusetts for the remainder of our trip. I was lucky to get all of my belongings and they were okay, but many of my classmates had items damaged from the water the firefighters used to control the blaze.

As far as campaigning goes, the day was a total loss; however, as a result, I was able to watch the debates that night with my classmates from the other campaigns. We were also able to have dinner with one of our classmates, Rebekah, and celebrate her 19th birthday with her :)