Forget the Koufax Awards, it's time for the Grannies!
AKA, the Granite State Awards, handed out to the New Hampshire presidential primary campaigns.
And the 2004 winners are:
Most difficult to locate Manchester headquarters without a Blackberry and Mapquest:
Wesley Clark (protection against smart muntions perhaps?)
Volunteer operations most likely to ignore newcomers unless they're on fire (literally):
John Kerry (hence the need for all those firefighters)
Campaign volunteers most likely to be characterized as playground bullies:
Howard Dean
Best election day noshies:
Dennis Kucinich
Worst post-election party noshies:
John Edwards
Cleanest Headquarters:
Dennis Kucinich (Runner-up: Howard Dean)
Largest visibility contingent on primary day on Elm Street:
Wesley Clark
Loudest visibility contingent on Elm Street:
Howard Dean...no, now it's John Kerry....wait, now Howard Dean...
Largest number of campaign signs on Nashua Road in Merrimack:
Lyndon Larouche
Most creative campaign mascot:
The Carrot (oops, that was the candidate, not the mascot)
Most white middle-aged guys in a campaign headquarters:
Joe Lieberman
Campaign where the majority of paid staff can't get into a bar without an ID check:
John Edwards (yes, it's not just the candidate)
Posted by MB Williams at January 28, 2004 02:52 PM | TrackBackAt least this time Ingrid Newkirk wasn't running the PETA "Got Prostate Cancer?" campaign, version 2.0. Last time it featured a milk-moustachioed Rudy Guliani ... Rudy happened to have had prostate cancer, highly fatal in men ... on the premise that one scientific study may link dairy products with certain health problems, possibly including Guliani's cancer ...
This time she could have used John Kerry as her poster boy for pseudo-environmentalism, and gotten a two-fur with Dennis Kucinich's dietary philosophy.
Posted by: Eric at January 28, 2004 03:14 PM"Campaign volunteers most likely to be characterized as playground bullies:
Howard Dean"
I know you don't care much for Howard Dean, but this is unfair. And if you'd been at the pre-debate rally where a Kerry supporter was arrested for punching a woman in the face and pushing her to the ground, and the rest of them shoved their way through the crowd like they were the only people there, you might have a different opinion.
Posted by: natasha at January 29, 2004 02:04 PMNatasha, I only have my own observations and interviews with dozens of staff and volunteers from numerous campaigns in New Hampshire, and most of them had at least one negative Dean volunteer encounter to speak of (see Tuesday's post from Kucinich HQ.) So while that doesn't discount the behavior of a Kerry supporter (I personally don't have much nice to say about their volunteer organization either), it doesn't give a pass to the poor behavior of some Dean operatives in Manchester.
Posted by: MB at January 29, 2004 08:05 PM