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...meeting, Zafran outlines the group’s precinct captain system, which promotes personal contacts between the captains—who are in charge of certain dorms—and student supporters. The Dems are also reaching out to partner with other campus groups like the BGLTSA, the Progressive Jewish Alliance, and Harvard Supporters for Israel. A recent canvassing trip to New Hampshire was co-sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee...
...Walking back to campaign headquarters, the two muse on the activities of the day. Usui is pleasantly surprised that there were so many undecided voters, unlike at Harvard, where she feels everyone has already made up their minds. Though they both say that they enjoyed the experience, neither feels certain that her work would have any impact. In hindsight, Wenger wishes she had told some of the undecided voters about why she supported Obama...
...retreat into passivity or run far, far away into delusion.Tsutsui’s own detached narrative voice allows the reader to laugh at events that would otherwise be overly pathetic or horrifying. The clever blend of science fiction and realism allows Tsutsui to defamiliarize the familiar and highlight certain similarities that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious. The routine parts of life—worries about what the boss will say, or the wife will do, or the men will think—are emphasized even more against the backdrop of absurd calamities—a plane crash...
...happy to oblige. (Full disclosure: in the mid-'90s, Ebbin and I knew each other briefly as colleagues; he sold ads for Washington City Paper, a weekly where I was a reporter.) Using Ebbin's expertise, the gay donors - none of whom live in Virginia - began contributing to certain candidates in the state. There were five benefactors: David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., who in 1999 sold the company he had co-founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill of Denver, another tech multimillionaire; James Hormel...
...gave "at least $6.4 million to candidates or political committees in at least a dozen states, including Michigan, where he can boast that Democrats gained a majority in the state house for the first time in 12 years." Some Cabinet members also donated tens of thousands of dollars in certain Iowa and New Hampshire races in 2006, when Democrats regained control of both states' legislatures. Those states' Democratic majorities now ensure that, among other things, efforts to amend the Iowa and New Hampshire constitutions to ban same-sex marriage will fail...