Osler's Razor

Is that the NH Stonehenge in the background?
 

Hey, you can't fool me. I know there's not polar bears in Vermont. At the very most, that's Alabama. What's IPLawGuy doing there?
 

So far, all I have seen is this one bar in Nashua. They told me just to sit in here, towards the back, and hold a sign. I'm a little drunk, but I'm doing a really good job. Go McCann!
 

Oh, @#$@, my sign has been wrong this whole time. It's supposed to say "McCain," not "McCann."
 

That photo is from the Waco zoo, most likely. I've been there too.

Meanwhile, it was colder in Waco last January when the Iplawfamily visited over MLKjr. weekend than it is here in New Hampshire. I brought all kinds of cold weather gear and am sweating like a southern politician at a Fourth of July picnic. Its at least 50 degrees here and much warmer if you're standing in the sun, which is what I was doing much of today in downtown Manchester. The snow is melting fast and creating huge puddles of very dirty water. The biggest danger is being deluged with filthy dreck by a passing car.

There were between 4-7 of us McCainiacs at Manchester's Ward 5 polling place along with some retired union guys from Albany and other "old line Democrats" there for Hillary, a bunch of younger folks for Obama and some very committed people for Ron Paul. We were all friendly and had a good time. The Hillary people even shared their pizza with the rest of us. I wish the foreign press would come take pictures of scenes like this or of the public demonstrations in which I participated in downtown Portsmouth, NH on Sunday and Monday. We were there for McCAin in force along with packs of Ron Paul supporters, Kucinich people, Hillary die-hards, Obama lovers and a couple of Edwards supporters and even some Romney people. Really haven't seen much evidence of Romney's campaign except on TV. I thought he looked terrible during the Sunday night Fox debate but the Frank Luntz focus group disagreed. I don't get it. I think Tyd's right about his character.

Anyhow, there are tons of McCain folks in NH, but the most vocal groups are the Kucinich and Paul supporters! They seem to know where the TV cameras are and have packed the main street of Manchester. -- too bad most of the voters are in neighborhoods and apartment buildings, not the central business district.

From 6-9 AM a group of us did a "sign wave" at a major intersection in Manchester, then went to breakfast at local legend the Merrimack Restaurant. We saw both Paul and Kucinich. The latter stopped by our booth and we spoke pleasantly -- he knows my Uncle, a liberal Democrat in Cleveland.

At lunch we saw a third party candidate named Christopher Popham-Smith, from the new "One America" party. We think his platform is that Muslim extremists are bad. We also met "Citizen Kate," a video blogger from Chicago. She started a blog to learn about politics. Or something like that.

I did get a chance to say hello to my old boss John McCain and his wife last night at a final rally for friends and family. He was in good spirits and still telling his patented corny jokes.

We feel like he will win today, but the press built him up too much once again, so today's message has been that Romney is surging.. Why? How?

Who knows. We'll find out tonight.

Oh, and Obama is going to win big on the D side. The Hillary people are working hard, but the sentiment is clearly not with her amongst the voters I saw. I feel sorry for her. I think she'd be a fine COO, but Obama clearly has the "temprament" to inspire. His voters BELIEVE. I just worry about the whole "cult of personality" that develops around all politicians, especially the super -charismatic ones.

OK, back to work!
 

Dear Doppleganger--The bar I was drinking in was actually in Manchester.
 

Oh, I was interviewed on CNN, man on the street type deal and was filmed by France 24, a Cable station for French emiges