By Jim Tankersley
No! Sleep! ‘Til Portsmouth!
Blitzing across New Hampshire in hopes of pulling out a surprisingly strong finish, Democrat John Edwards is replaying the no-doze strategy he deployed in the final days before the Iowa caucuses.
Edwards, a former North Carolina senator who finished second in Iowa but trails Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in polls here, will barnstorm New Hampshire on a 36-hour continuous bus tour his campaign dubs the “Marathon for the Middle Class.” The fun – or agony, depending on your point of view – starts in Manchester at noon today and is scheduled to end after midnight Tuesday in Portsmouth.
To keep him company, or maybe just awake, Edwards is bringing several friends along for the ride, including his wife Elizabeth, several of the “real people” whose stories he tells on the campaign trail and actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.
Click below to take a gander at the full schedule. And P.S. – the opening line of this posting was brought to you with apologies to the Beastie Boys (“No sleep ’til Brooklyn”), a band The Swamp has never heard at any candidate’s campaign event.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008
12:00 PM
Manchester, NH
3:15 PM
Keene, NH
7:15 PM
Derry, NH
9:15 PM
Nashua, NH
MONDAY, JANUARY 7TH
2:00 AM
Berlin, NH
4:00 AM
Littleton, NH
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6:35 AM
Claremont, NH
10:45 AM
Lakeport, NH
1:45 PM
Bedford, NH
3:55 PM
Hampton, NH
7:15 PM
Dover, NH
9:20 PM
Somersworth, NH
10:15 PM
Rochester, NH
11:25 PM
Durham, NH
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2008
12:30 AM
Portsmouth, NH