You sometimes here that Pennsylvania was not a swing state, and neither campaign paid any attention to Pennsylvania. I checked my diary, and Sarah, our first Obama organizer, moved in with Linda and me on March 20. She was responsible for Carbon, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne counties. She later was assigned to Monroe and Pike only, and Emilio, our new organizer, was responsible for Carbon and Luzerne. When he in turn was tasked with Luzerne only, Carbon received its very own organizer, Robin from Illinois.
After the campaign was over, Robin asked if I could burn the records from Carbon and Monroe counties. There were two pickup truckloads of canvass lists, call lists, turf maps, lit drop material, scripts for phase one, phase two, persuasion call scripts, commitment cards, recruitment scripts, GOTV scripts, door hangers--and thousands and thousands of names with little check-marks and circles, all which had been entered into the data bank.
It wasn’t by chance that Romney lost this state. The Obama campaign made it happen.
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