McDougal Campaign Tour - Day 7

Campaign Managers Journal 8/29/06 - somewhere in the Midwest

McDougal seems to have instituted a new system of navigation. We are travelling from ice cream shop to ice cream shop. Chain stores are not acceptable, nor are hard ice cream shops. Only locally owned soft serve. Preferably in some sort of novelty building. McDougal seems to know the exact location of every Dairy Duck, Tast-E-King, Curly Top and Bunky's Igloo between Bangor and Baha. We are making poor time.


Utah speeches could have gone better, but I wouldn't call them a complete disaster. McDougal has abandoned the podium and taken to giving all speeches perched on the edge of the stage. "Crowds" seem impressed with his down-home charm. If we could only get him to talk about the issues he could be unstopable. Even if his positions on the issues are complete nonsense, when combined with down-home charm the voters will eat that shit up like a soft serve sundae. Fuck, it's been working for Bush for decades. Utah seems to conservative for McDougal's style of politics, however I like his instincts in this case. Those Mormons are always going door to door. Could be a good way to build word of mouth about the campaign.

The extra truck (Interns have taken to calling it Vehicle X, not sure I approve) is still with us. Highway cops seem to ignore it the same way the press ignores our campaign. A few reporters have turned out for McDougal's appearances, but they are from tiny local papers like the Nosepick Corners Union Register. They mistake McDougal's tortured genius for the rantings of a common lunatic and rarely print an article. Does a common lunatic travel in a luxury bus with an inflatable gorilla? I think not.

Found out yesterday that McDougal has been giving pills to the convoy drivers. Truck drivers are used to taking lots of pills, but I'm worried about the effects on the interns.