Melody Oliphant

Hillary Road Trip Hits A Battleground

New Haven’s Oliphant and Colter at Dresher Clinton HQ. (Thomas Breen photo)

New Haven’s Oliphant and Colter at Dresher Clinton HQ. (Thomas Breen photo)

October 10, 2016 - Willow Grove, Penn. — Standing outside of an ACME supermarket on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Carter Colter asked a question that he had been repeating to incoming and outgoing shoppers for the past three hours.

“Excuse me, are you registered to vote?”

Colter, 70, a retired advertising salesman who had joined a group of volunteers who traveled from New Haven down to the Philadelphia suburbs for the weekend to volunteer for the local Democratic Party, was wearing a yellow windbreaker emboldened by a deep blue Hillary Clinton sticker.

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Trump Bombs In The Cask Republic

Clinton supporters watching debate at Cask Republic. (Thomas Breen photo)

Clinton supporters watching debate at Cask Republic. (Thomas Breen photo)

September 27, 2016 - “Shut up,” someone at the front of the room shouted with exasperation as Donald Trump defended his self-proclaimed (and thoroughly fictional) early opposition to the Iraq War.

“No, keep talking,” the person sitting next to him responded with a smile. “This is good for us to hear!”

Such was the prevailing attitude on Monday night in a crowded side room at Cask Republic on Crown Street, where dozens of New Haveners gathered to laugh and cheer and grimace as they watched the first presidential debate between candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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