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...dealing with a core group of politically active students who can help mobilize the rest of the electorate," said Michael Albano, Graham's campaign manager...
Active campaigning by Harvard students, rather than their potential power as a voting bloc, will serve as their primary contribution to Graham's effort, Albano said...
Campaign volunteers will hand out stickers door-to-door in the next few weeks, and will distribute them again outside the polls on election day, Graham said. Her campaign manager, Michael Albano, is the son of State Sen. Salvatore Albano (D-Somerville), who won a sticker campaign in 1984. His staff members have since advised other campaigns on write-in efforts...
Borges said Albano's 1984 campaign risked $25,000 in borrowed money and two months of work for a sticker campaign. Albano opted for a sticker effort in the general election, because he had placed second in a three-way primary--only 163 votes behind the leader, Piro--and because Piro was about to face trial on corruption charges...
...risky undertaking worked--thanks to 75 to 100 nightly volunteers and saturation tactics using the stickers. Albano won by about 2000 votes, not counting around 1000 ballots that the Piro campaign challenged because the stickers were in the wrong place...