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Playing to a full house

Submitted by Beth Todgham on Mon, 01/26/2004 - 01:00.

Sunday was definitely "decision day" for many New Hampshire voters. You could see it in the streams of people who attended the variety of town hall meetings and rallys held by candidates throughout the state.

We started our day at the open house for Edwards. We thought he was going to be there, but instead Glenn Close served as his spokesperson. She showed a quiet commitment to the candidate and was very comfortable with deferring to his statewide campaign manager in the policy areas where she didn't know the answers. It was a personal decision on her part to support Edwards.

We headed over to his rally at the local junior high after the house party. We got there at least a half hour in advance and they were directing people into the cafeteria because the gym was full to capacity. I decided not to stay, but my husband did. He said Edwards made it to the overflow room after giving his main speech, but his wife Elizabeth and Glenn Close spoke to the room before he showed up. He overheard other people (woman) at the table saying that they were more impressed with Elizabeth than with the candidate.

I never made it to the Kerry rally...getting to work took a higher priority. My husband tried to go, but the traffic was so bad leading into the high school that he couldn't even get close and turned around and went home to watch the action on tv.

George caught the Dean rally in Plymouth last night on his way to Vermont. He called to let me know the Governor had drawn a big, enthusiastic crowd for the event and that he is now traveling consistently with his wife.

George said that he picked up some cool giveaways from the Dean campaign, including a deck of cards that features Howard. We had mentioned earlier in the day how non-collectible the stickers most campaigns hand you when you go into the door. I guess the priority should be to spend campaign funds on getting the word out, but it is kind of fun to have some tangible memorabilia as well.

By this time tomorrow, I will have cast my vote in the New Hampshire Primary. Kind of hard to believe that that day has finally come.

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