Word: schlepping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Barack Obama doesn’t become the next president of the United States,” comedian Sarah Silverman says in her YouTube video advertisement for The Great Schlep, “I’m gonna blame the Jews.” In September, when I went home for Rosh Hashanah and told my family that I supported Obama, I heard a very different ultimatum: If Barack Obama does become the next president of the United States, they’re going to blame the Jews. Orthodox Jews like my parents are an often overlooked demographic, even...
...recent weeks features comedian Sarah Silverman imploring young Jews to "get your fat asses on a plane to Florida" and lobby their grandparents there to vote Obama because "no one is more influential over them" than their grandkids - part of an organized grassroots initiative known as The Great Schlep. But airfares being what they are today, the Obama campaign might advise them to just drop them a text message...
Journalists talk about the importance of the "ground game" in Iowa, which is shorthand for an organization's ability to schlep voters to the polls on caucus night. Journalists make scholarly pronouncements about which candidates have the best ground game, but here's a secret: journalists have no idea. In Algona, I spoke to Bill Farnham, a stockbroker, who praised the local Obama organizer, a young man named Nate Hundt, for really ingratiating himself with the community. But Clinton may have the dynamite organizer in Pella; Edwards, in Greenfield. Ground games are unknowable...
...seem naïve or irrational, a sentimental indulgence for guilt-ridden liberals. Yet the mighty logic of utility would also condemn voting as foolish. The probability that your vote would influence the outcome of an election is impossibly small. It would not even compensate for your having to schlep down to the voting booth...
...three middles or three beginnings.”Transitions and overlaps—what Bol calls “points of mutual reference”—are worked out in meetings about course direction and lecture content.“We didn’t just schlep into the classroom and give lectures,” Hartl says of his 1b team. “We knew exactly what was happening when.”For faculty teaching courses that are many years in the running, debriefing in the early years helped streamline the course content...