Mark Pike

Daylight savings time… Is it an extra hour of sleep, or an extra hour to organize? Is the glass half-empty or half-full? Is half this nation going to vote to stay the course or will more than half decide that we gotta take the power back?
Stay tuned for answers.

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It’s happening.
The email addresses have faces and all the homepages have places.
I just spoke to a group of 75 people that assembled here in Gainesville for our GOTfreakinV (Get Out The freakin Vote) efforts. A woman just walked in 30 minutes late. She’s from California. This is Florida….
For the past few weeks, support has been [...]

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THE TAXONOMY OF THE TELEMARKETER
Chapter 1: The Answering machine
Understanding the importance of the individual in a populist movement is essential to the progress of a democracy. Nevertheless, these phone calls get really freakin’ repetitive and I decided to break things down real simple. There’s 2 types of answering machines.
I. Non-Creative.
You people make my job suck. [...]

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Personally, I think Kerry could’ve connected better with the youth voting bloc if he had just picked up a Nintendo gun and blasted away at some pixelized pigeons.
Yes, Kerry looked like a dork yesterday, but he was just playing the political game.
We all know Bush probably used to jump off the “powerpad” when doing the [...]

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To: Mark Pike
From: lawrenceg@???.net
subj.: what a creep
Your nut’s..Oh yeah! and a “LOSER”
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Occasionally, when sending e-mails out to 100 volunteers on a campaign, you accidentally have a typo in an e-mail address. Luckily, I didn’t send it out to any top Republican operatives. From the looks of the reply I got above, the e-mail found its [...]

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Did you know that ice cream trucks sells on eBay for anywhere from $500 for an economy version to $9,0000 for a top of the line model with all the bells and whistles and popsicles you can imagine?
I had a great idea yesterday to quit my job as a political organizer and buy an ice [...]

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Who says that politicians can’t connect with the Hip-Hop Generation?
Watch MC Tim Ryan (D-OH) drop some hot lyrics by clickin on the image below. You’ll need Quicktime.

pretty please, pass it on:
http://www.duke.edu/~map8/images/MCTimRyanD-OH.jpg

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He entered the cafe and took off his surgical mask, pulled up a chair and placed his bulging black briefcase on the table. I was still trying to figure out why a surgical mask dangled from his neck when he asked me “is this the meeting?” I wasn’t sure how to reply, because it was [...]

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“Just the thought of Dubya giving a concession speech on Nov. 2nd excites the hell out of me,” said one of my 60 year old volunteers, “In fact, just thinking about it is giving me an erection!”
I laughed and then calmy replied, “Well sir, let’s just hope we don’t have any problems again with electile [...]

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“Do you wanna help feed George Bush?”
To the inebriated concertgoer, that is what “Do you want to help defeat George Bush?” sounds like.
The tipsy trustafarians replied, “Hellll nah.. I wanna starve the [insert expletive]” and kept walking by.
The Republicans would only hear the words “George Bush” and would give me high-fives. I willingly accepted them.
Occasionally, [...]

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