Rand Paul goes phone banking in New Hampshire
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Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) -- For his first event in New Hampshire on Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul agreed to do some phone-banking at U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown's headquarters in Manchester.
The Kentucky Republican sat down at a long table, where he was flanked by the state's GOP chairwoman Jennifer Horn and Brown's wife, Gail, who were also making calls. Brown, who Paul endorsed at a separate event last month, was out of town.
Nine journalists roughly half with cameras gathered quietly in front of Paul to observe.
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No one answered Paul's first phone call, and an aide from the headquarters stepped in to dial out to the next person. The same thing happened after the second. After the third, the aide had briefly looked away and didn't immediately jump in to redial.
"Alright, let's keep going," Paul said, looking around and sounding agitated. "Who's helping me?"
The aide quickly returned to the phone and pressed the right buttons. Paul seemed puzzled that the system didn't do that on its own, and it was becoming clear that those few seconds of entering new numbers were becoming a waste of time.
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The doctor in him had a solution. "I just thought of a software update for you," he said, suggesting they use a program that automatically calls the next name on a list after an unsuccessful attempt. He repeated his prescription to Horn.
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Rand Paul goes phone banking in New Hampshire