Beyond partisanship
I'm missing the grand opening of the Obama North Columbus field office. For six weeks I've been trying to put 30 free phones, a PRI (23) and a fraction, plus a pizza box running linux and asterix as the PBX, and analog handsets with either four-pair to a punch-down block, or 15 pairs of analog-to-SIP adaptors, or the equivalent from a VoIP wholesaler, with the analog-to-SIP pairs, plus hardware echo cancellation, on a TimeWarner drop, for a four month lease, into that rental. Not for the Obama Campaign, but for a Congressional that drank the coordinated campaign koolaid. Now I simply don't care if they have phones, or what the per-seat cost or call-density they managed to get, or if they finally figured out how to buy cell phones.
My fee? $0.00.
Six weeks lost, 36 days lost, at 1.5k dials/day. That's 54,000 calls not made. That's the total vote for the winner in the CA-17 in '06, and those Democratic and Independent voters don't even have ODP or Campaign-Name on their calls missed, let alone an enaged voice speaking from their 20,000 answering machines. It doesn't look better at 2k dials/day, thats 72,000 contacts missed. And that's just for one CD with all of the DCCC's money to spend, but none of the sense many, many better races invent from native wit and pluck.
