A Little On the NH Ground Pick Me Up for Clark Supporters

Today, Clark had a Conversations with Clark event in NH - Portsmouth. They expected 200 people. 1000 (that's right - ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE!!!) showed up.

It is a new day in NH folks.

I needed that!!! ;)

:hi:

. . .you don't have to bribe people when you have the next president of the United States.

Immature of me, I know, but hell - it's Saturday night and :yourock:

excellent by you!! :)

BOOYAH!!!

Were offered up the street at the Draft Dodger Ski Lodge.

:kick:

by responding to childish baiting comments.

Some people can't stand good news about Clark - even people that said they were former Clark supporters.

To me - 1000 people turning out to hear Wes Clark is wonderful, and a sign of good things to come.

sticking your nose in Clark threads to post the same corny jokes and played out script over and over?

CLARK ON THE MOVE!

Wow, what a difference!! Glad to hear Wes is getting some crowds in NH. :bounce: :bounce:

First hand eye witness information.

If so, where?

I was in the left hand choir seats, beside the woman who asked the "medicare reform" question.

BTW, the official count was over 1500. This morning when we were setting up the basement room, we asked the advance people about the space. Last night, we knew that there were plenty of people coming. Anyway, another volunteer and I sneaked upstairs to admire that fabulous UU church. We were musing how that was the space that Clark should be speaking in. And then the magic happened.

http://clark04.com/story/62/

Althoughthe original poster said 1000 the campaign is claiming 800 its a blow out nonetheless.

thanks for the link. Go Wes!!

As the late, great, Adam Clayton Powell used to say. :bounce:

I got the 1000 from the Clark campaign people - the link claims more than 800. Still amazing. Sign of good things to come.

I was in NH today, canvassing. People are remarkably polite and very interested in the primary. Heard lots of ABB or anybody but bush - which is very good.

they had to turn away 200......who were told to wait in some other area....after Wes was finished with the 800, he went and talked with the remaining 200! That's what I call working it!

WES CLARK WILL MAKE AN EXTRAORDINARY AMERICAN PRESIDENT!

That's what we like to see!

Go, Wes, go!

New Hampshire voters swarm to see Clark!

Saturday, Wes Clark was meeting residents in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when people began to pour out of stores to walk with him down the street. They followed him to South Church, for a "Conversation with Clark."

The Conversation was scheduled to take place in the basement, and organizers were expecting a crowd of about 200. More than 800 people showed up. The event was quickly moved upstairs to the main sanctuary.

One Clark staffer in attendance called the reaction to Clark, "amazing."

"Something good is happening in New Hampshire," he said.


AND

as ri coordinator for ri vols going to nh, i received a first hand report of the portsmouth event. I was told there were 1000 there and folks had to be turned away. i was also told that most folks departing the event picked up lawn signs to post by their homes on the way out.

I did hear from the folks in Manchester that they had to move to the main sanctuary for more space.

to follow him down the street. That is wonderful! Sounds like a spontaneous swell.

I'm helping out in NH the last weekend before voting. I've never been this involved with a political campaign before --- where I would fly cross country.

Instead of Rats! :)

Clark is going to surprise people in the NH primary.

Maybe I shouldn't say that. Bad juju. ;)

giving yourself an "Ayan Hura" (pronounced "I-N Hura." Yiddish for "an evil eye."

I hope you are right about NH.

the 'baseball curse'...

Harry Carey: 'And with the Cubs up by 1 with 2 outs in the 14th here in Philadelphia, here's Bob Smith the pitcher who hasn't hit a home run in 748 consecutive (-crack-)... ahhh crap'

i miss harry.

I grew up a New York Rangers Hockey fan. I believe in curses like a Red Sox fan. :)

"Matteau! Matteau! Matteau!"

:)

"Ke nignehore". How do I know this? I've found a Yiddish site that has common expressions. I know and use dozens of Yiddish expressions, more than I even realised (I'm from NYC), but spelling them is a different matter, so I needed help. :)

His disclaimer:

Please don't ask me for the proper spelling of Yiddish word in English
Since the Yiddish word is being transliterated using the English alphabet, it's a "best guess" process anyway. I assume phonetically based, instead of a strict Hebrew character to English character mapping. Thus, your spelling is as "proper" as other variations of spelling that a person may come up with.

It's a cool site. http://www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm

:D

Thank you so much for the post!


” JAFO”

will I be reading next that 600 people showed up to see Clark in Conway, NH last night?

It's a new day in exaggerated numbers in NH.

I'm glad you had a good turnout, and that you're excited - but the South Church would not hold 800 people - never mind 1000.

Who knows, maybe it was standing room only.
Maybe people stood by the doors to listen in.

Anyway, it sounds like a bona fide "Happening"!

And if it were really that many people, it would be all over the news. I get a station that covers that area, so if it really was that many people it would have been reported you'd think. :shrug:

to hurt Dean :shrug:

I was squeezed into half a seat when another volunteer put her daughter on her lap. My friends were sitting on the floor with many others in the front. The entire walk space at the back of the church was packed with those who were standing. And finally the balcony which was packed, also had people standing so close you couldn't see the doors.

I did a sample head count of what I could see, and extrapolated from there.

Clark's gonna do very well in NH!

get as much as his poll numbers, it's a loss for Dean even if he wins. Dean should be expected to do well in a neighboring state. If Clark comes anywhere close, it's the "Comeback Kid, redux."

I honestly think that any of them are so much better than GW in compassion and integrety.

Another forwarded e-mail posted to the Clark Comment page just now..
Seems Clark went across the street to the restaurant with the turnaways and gave them their own meeting....

Looks like another breakfast will be shown live on CSPAN 1 at 8 am ET with later repeats....

Here's the report:


Well, we got off a bit early for Sat night, so I have a few minutes
to write. There was a sign of a major turn today that had everyone
very excited. As you know, the candidates come up and have two or 3
events each day -- pancake breafast, town hall, etc. In addition,
they have several events in between such as stopping by the police
station, photo op with the firemen, etc. Usually the candidates get
200 or so people at each event. They are held in small locales such
as Foreign legion halls or churches. Slowly the buzz has started
picking up about Clark -- we think as people get nervous about Dean,
they started looking at Clark and now like what they see. Because
he had another town hall meeting in Portsmouth today (not a huge
town). It was held in the basement of a local church. They
expected 200. Almost 1000 people showed up. This was
unprecedented. They moved it into the congregational part of the
church. Still 200 people had to be turned away, so they sent them
across the street to a restaurant, and when Clark was done, he went
over there to talk to them. The press was dumbfounded. The
pictures are great -- news.yahoo.com has some good ones of the
event. We'll see how the press handles this one. Staffers are
excited about this.

Tomorrow morning I get a break from canvassing and calling and will
buss tables at Clark's Pancake Breakfast at the Foreign Legion
Sweeney Post Hall in Manchester. It starts at 8am Eastern and will
be carried live by C-span then replayed several times during the
day. 500 people are expected.
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THere is another long post on the blog reporting about how guys stood outside with a couple of signs and more and more cars passed by and they were getting a reaction. They began to think the hall would be too small...and they were right. This huge turnout started with a few signs at an intersection....WOW!!!

Holy Moly! The times they are a changin'! That is just the most exciting thing I have heard in a long, long time. And for Wes to go across the street and speak to the 200 other people says a lot about him. He's just incredible. I'm SOOOOOO exhilarated! :bounce:

Go Wes!

No Waffles...only pancakes for this great Guy!

So exciting.

If you can do good...you should.

where in downtown Portsmouth, did they put 200 people in a restaurant, without hiking all the way to the Sheraton?

NH. Had to search for them...no stories on the main pages!

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=Clark

And that's the problem, IMHO. There's NEVER any stories "on the main pages." And we wonder why Dean has better name recognition?

I get the daily email from Democrats.com. Now I know they're supporting Kucinich, they've been upfront about that. But that hasn't stopped them from including items about other candidates in their news briefs. Except Clark, that is.

And, they're supposed to be on *our* (Democratic) side.

I'm very, very disappointed in them.

You are doing fine.

IS fine!

Now that's some excellent news! Thanks for posting this.

GO WES! :bounce:

Witch! You do lips proud! I've been reading you on DU...and you're great......and keep the lip legacy up on that higher plane!:yourock:

With all those Clark Supporters flooding the streets of Portsmouth there has to be at least one person with a photo or two to share. Clark's campaign must have taken pictures of this event. I remember the Dean campaign had pictures up on their website almost instantly when he drew those big crowds. This event was 9 hours ago, so why no pictures? I've checked google news, yahoo news photos, NH network news websites, online news sources and not a single mention or photo. Surely this kind of a crowd in small NH must be documented with some pictures.

I'm sure it's just a big lie. :eyes:

What a ridiculous thing to bitch about (especially so soon). Give them a little time, I'm sure they'll post photos.

the event never happened, it didn't exist!

And conversely, if I google "clark war criminal" and get results, it must be true.

Sometimes I hate the Internet...

As an old remnant of colonial law, it is required that no churches in New England be of a size capable of holding more than 73 worshippers?

It's sinister, I tell you.... :evilgrin:

In link below.

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=Clark

Also, first hand accounts on www.clark04.com.

Do you have a particular concern about documentation?

let alone 1000. I'm sure he attracted a good crowd, but I strongly suspect the number is being highly exaggerated, that's all.

Oh, and I did look at the pictures and got the impression that, indeed, the crowd number was exaggerated.

that ubiquitous Rove!

when people began to pour out of stores to walk with him down the street

It's a real shame that there wasn't any press around to report it. That seems a little bit odd too now that I think about it.

And what a guy to send in against the Helots!

And I concur about the odd-seeming, several people have remarked to me about the undercoverage of Clark lately by the national press. Guess the media barons have put the kabosh on Clark campaign coverage.

'Salright, to the streets, to the ramparts, to the churches.

(and to MTP and c-span tomorrow am)

"PORTSMOUTH - There was little room to maneuver on Saturday afternoon as Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark visited the South Church after a short walk through downtown Portsmouth.

Before the retired Army general’s arrival, supporters were seen breaking out additional chairs, and the second-story balcony was filled to capacity with additional supporters hoping to hear the candidate speak during his campaign stop.

Every pew was filled and the rear aisles were packed with people shoulder to shoulder as Clark made his way into the church to greet supporters and speak on patriotism and family values, and to mention the names of a few potential running mates."

Link:
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/01042004/news/68580.htm

thanks for posting. :)

This must be a Photoshopping for a New American Century trick

:evilgrin:

Incredible! I'm so happy for Wes! That must have felt so good to have 600 more people than expected show up.

I just can't wait to see the next NH poll. :bounce:

:dem:

things are going to get fairly interesting before Jan 27th . . .

:toast:

about Clark, the more you like him.

and style goes. He's "bobbled" a coupla times, but Dean has him beat in that regard right now.

If he only had more time...everyone would be on his side. Even all the Deanies. They would see that Clark really is the best one for the job and the best one to beat Bush. Please Deanies...switch to Clark. Dean got the Democrats attention. Now let Clark carry the baton and get the country and the world's attention.

"Dean supporters" or perhaps "Dean folk"

You should edit the post! :)

This is great!

Gooooooo NH Clark supporters! :yourock:

DTH

Sounds like Clark and his supporters are doing GREAT in New Hampshire. To all the Clark supporters on the ground and on the phone in New Hampshire, thanks for all your hard work.
:yourock: