Tenacity: an anecdote

God bows to math; Hillary doesn’t. Neither, clearly, do her supporters. I present to you a small parable by way of showing that the Democratic primary is going all the way to Denver.

A couple days ago, I was walking around campus, putting up posters for the Open Net Initiative‘s book release party (it’s this Friday, you should go). I soon came to a bulletin board without enough free space for my flier. Not wanting to incur bad karma for covering up any fliers for events that hadn’t occurred yet, yet also not wanting to rearrange the whole board, I was lucky to find one little 8.5×11″ ad that happened to be for Hillary Clinton, presumably posted by HLS for Hillary. Now, clearly the Democratic primary is still a-churnin’, but Massachusetts voted more than a month ago (and Hillary won, I might add!). I couldn’t believe that such an outdated poster was still up when everything else on the board advertised a current event. Happily, I stuck my poster up, covering most of Hillary’s, and went on my way…This morning, maybe thirty-six hours after I’d put my posters up around campus, I happened to pass by the Hillary bulletin board again. This time, I couldn’t help but notice, my poster wasn’t where I’d hung it. Instead, it appeared, someone had carefully rearranged the entire board to occupy every square inch. Up in one corner was my Berkman flier; in the very center, I swear almost gleaming, was the Hillary ad.

These people do not give up.