Feedback

I’ve gotten a lot of nice feedback in the last week. Many people said I sounded good on Almanac last Friday. None were impressed with Grams or Oberstar. Many of these people were folks I didn’t know at the Reif Center for the second debate.

This morning a fellow from church that I’ve hardly ever said a word to came over and smiled and said the same thing. Another fellow and his wife came over to tell me they agreed with me one hundred percent on my essay in the Duluth News Tribune. My neighbor was there as well and she commented that the last time she put a sign for me up in her yard all her Democrat friends gave her grief. She told me she can’t vote for me this year. I presume that’s because as an avid Democrat she feels compelled to vote for Oberstar but she told me that the debate last night wasn’t good.

I may be headed for disaster but there seems to be a heckuva lot of people pulling for me.

I’ve been getting quite a lot of google alerts about Rod Grams from people writing very unflattering letters to their local papers about him. A couple of editorials have decried his radio ads. If both candidates are perceived as being unappealing what will people do with me as the alternative? Folks in the south and west of the district don’t know me but they might like to cast a protest vote for somebody with the “unity” party lable behind their name. Folks in my part of the district do know me. They might do the same and do it for the same reasons.

Oberstar and Grams are the only ones who have any polling data to dig into. Grams said he’s doing better all the time in his polls. I think that’s bravado. Oberstar and Grams are also the only folks who know how I’m doing in their phone calls. They aren’t talking.