This weekend is the last weekend before the special primary election to fill the seat that the late Senator Ted Kennedy held, and the Coakley campaign was in full swing trying to get out the vote across the state.
I was allowed to follow the campaign Friday as they swept the North Shore from Boston to Gloucester and the Merrimack Valley. Two teams played leapfrog, advancing locations just in time for the candidate to arrive, stump, and depart for the next location.
After just a day of it, I was tuckered out, but that’s when the “real work” begins, according to the organizers I was riding with. Not only did they have a full shift of office work ahead of them, but they had three more days of the same thing as the campaign hit the South Shore and Metro West and everything in between.
My real goal was to get something with Martha and real people, not surrounded by news cameras and microphones and lights. I think I achieved that, and managed to get a picture of how Massachusetts politics work.
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