Posting from Edwards New Hampshire Headquarters on this bitterly cold Sunday afternoon. When I arrived this morning, fifteen frozen but enthusiastic volunteers were waving and cheering on the street below the third floor Elm Street office. Located in a Victorian office building in this former mill town-turned-high-tech-wannabe, the space is cramped but buzzing. Three small rooms house phone banks, computers and volunteer activities. The space, which was probably comfortable for the New Hampshire activities a month ago, is now clearly strained as an influx of volunteers from around the country stream in to participant in what has all the look and feel of a genuine "movement".
Earlier this afternoon, I travelled to Nashua, to see the Senator speak in a local middle school. The crowd in the gym reached capacity a half hour before Edwards arrived, and from what I heard from Eric afterwards, C-Span estimated over 1700 attendees.
I'll be writing a full account of those event later this evening, and while I planned on spending today attending other events of other campaigns, I'm finding much of the interesting story is here.
Now a volunteer needs this computer, so I'm off until later.
Posted by MB Williams at January 25, 2004 02:52 PM | TrackBackI appreciate the coverage and look forward to first-hand analysis of how Edwards is doing in New Hampshire.
Posted by: Brian A. at January 25, 2004 06:26 PM