Too much, PennDems, too damn much
… So, please, PennDems, never again ask me if I know where my polling place is — no joke — ten times between my house and my class in the former Logan Hall. It is 10:30 in the morning. I am tired. Thank you for Baracking the Vote, really, but kindly shut up and never again put such an unnecessarily ridiculous number of people into your Election Day effort.
A quick summary of where I was asked if I had voted already (at 10:30!) or if I knew my polling place: 40th and Locust (two people), by Commons (three people), the top of the bridge (one person), by Huntsman (four people), and, of course, the Compass (94,000 people screaming bloody murder).
Worse even than the absurd number of times I was accosted on Locust Walk on Election Day is what your awful awful canvassers did to posters all around campus at 12 a.m. on Election Day. You sneakily covered every one up. Every fucking one.
Let me repeat: YOU COVERED UP ALL THE POSTERS THAT STUDENT GROUPS SO PAINSTAKINGLY PUT UP EARLIER IN THE WEEK!!!
Dammit, PennDems! Dammit! Some of us spent a lot of time hanging the posters for their (warning: blatant self-promotion) events this weekend.
Every student group was affected by the fact that you decided the campus needed to have an Obama poster on its every inch. You hid my and other SAC-funded groups’ posters on every kiosk on the Walk and in many other places.
SAC groups follow SAC rules by not covering up other groups’ posters; you should have respected this rule even if you are funded by the richest political campaign in world history. Even if that was recycled paper, your ecological footprint in this matter is embarrassing.
My fellow Democrats, you know I love you. I haven’t been as proud as when Senator Obama became President-Elect Obama in quite some time (okay, not that long: World Champs, remember?). But I am a proud grouch and you ruined my morning. And I am a proud director of Quills and we have really awesome posters that you hung Obama posters over. So, PennDems: not cool. Not at all cool.
… But please don’t take me off the listserve; next time Drew Barrymore almost comes, I want to be the first to know… and then un-know.
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November 7th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Heh. I know what you mean. I had a large number of people encouraging me to vote, but I am 17 and can’t vote, so it was like they were waving a piece of candy in front of me and taking it away. Over and over and over again.
November 7th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Hi Readers-
Will Steinberger, blogger of this here blog, here. Check out this link–
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/title/?ref=opinion
–It’s a brilliantly written blog from Judith Warner on Barack Obama’s historical election victory. If you’re looking for something far less cynical than my own writing, this is it. It’s quite moving.
Enjoy,
Will Steinberger
November 8th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Great post. You should talk to your editor about getting this in the print column. If it’s true it’s very interesting that Penn Dems would not only break the SAC rule, but also be so inconsiderate and wasteful in the name of hope and change.
I would love to see their leaders respond to this.
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