7:45 AM
From New York City
by Perry Sheffield
Andrew and I just had a peaceful and satisfying voting experience [this morning]. About 50 people [were] in line at [our polling place at] 5:45 am just before opening (which the ol' timers say they've never seen before).
Our phone banking session to FL for GOTV last night at the Alhambra
Ballroom was ended by an impromtu performance by Peter Yarrow (of
Peter, Paul, and Mary) and Ben Vereen (the actor) of some civil rights
songs accompanied by guitar. We all sang along and I even got my
parents on the line to be part of it.
We have a TPP dinner tonight at a friend's.
From Jamaica Plain, MA
We sent off our first crew of folks to New Hampshire at 6 AM this morning. They'll be doing Get Out the Vote work in Merrimac, Manchester, Laconia and Plymouth today. Our next group goes out in a few minutes. Since Saturday, volunteers here have made over 19,000 calls to voters in swing states. We're hearing that the lines are circling around the block at polling places here.
