I just did some door-to-door canvassing for Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.
I had to hate doing door-to-door, largely because I got bit by a dog last time. It didn’t break the skin, but it rattled me. But this one went well so I’ll do another shift or two before the election.
Are you guys involved with any volunteer efforts?
Baud
Phone banking/GOTV.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
Not yet. Gotta work this weekend, but the schedule should free up after that. I much prefer door knocking to phone banking. Never had any issues with dogs, though, so maybe that’s why.
shortstop
Door-to-door GOTV in Iowa and Ohio.
Chat Noir
Chicago 2nd Ward Obama for America team.
metalgirl
Definitely canvassing for OFA every weekend until the election. Here in NC so we go for Obama by more than 14k votes this time!! :)
suzanne
Phone banking and door-to-door canvassing. I can’t donate much, but I can volunteer, so I do. It’s a busy time of year,though (studying for a big exam and planning a volunteer project, in addition to work), so I’m being selective about where I spend my time. Carmona is right on the edge, so I think my efforts would be best spent on that race. I have a “Paul Penzone: THE NEW SHERIFF” sign in my front yard, though, as I want to bathe in Joe Arpaio’s salty tears.
Davis X. Machina
Not personally, but the daughter worked all summer for Equality Maine, and will be back for a weekend down the home-stretch. Polls look good. (Crossing fingers…)
Uncle Cosmo
Got an e-mail forwarded by a friend in town today–seems the Obama folks need boots on the ground for the final push in Pittsburgh. It crossed my mind to go up for that last week & knock on doors for Rmoney in a Ray Lewis jersey. (Then again, the over/under on how many houses I’d reach before I got poleaxed is probably 5, & smart money would go with the under…)
Dan
Leaving now to do data entry for Obama at the main Cincy OFA office.
catdevotee
Four to six hours a week staffing the local Dem office. It’s a mostly rural area, so door-to-door isn’t feasible. Peter DeFazio is our Congresscritter; he’s being challenged again by the looney Art Robinson, who made such a fool of himself when he was interviewed by Rachel Maddow a while back.
sacrablue
I’ve been doing data entry in CA-7 for about two months. The race is one of the closest in the country and has received some national attention. I get to overhear a lot of the phone banking. It is amazing to hear just how apathetic most registered voters are. This is slowly beginning to change as the TV advertising is really starting to intensify.
Redshift
I’m door-knocking most Saturdays, and it looks like my house may be GOTV base for part of my county the weekend before election day. We’re helping Ms. Redshift’s parents move into assisted living in a week, otherwise I’d be doing a lot more. (I was signed up to be a neighborhood team leader before that hit.)
geg6
Been doing some phone banking, both for Obama and for Mark Critz. I’ve also been working with the PA Dems to get people their IDs. That has taken up a lot of the time I would have normally spent canvassing.
Starting to see yard signs. So far, it’s 2-1 Obama. For around here, that’s a pretty good showing.
Valdivia
Phone banking at the DNC and then canvassing in VA.
Maude
OT, sorry.
A Mom Anon, if you read this, I’ve been thinking about you this past week. And about son. I hope you are okay.
Edit: I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in. I hear you knocking, go back where you been.
debbie
Same in central Ohio, even in the nearby suburb with lots of $500,000+ homes.
General Stuck
I haven’t received my instructions today from our neo-firebaggers on the proper way to support Obama. When I get the plan I’ll probably do the usual, stand around like a clueless Obot. Or maybe go door to door handing out cans of catfood with a special greetings from the president.
Anoniminous
GOTV stuff. In fact, I need to stop yakking and get on it.
SBJules
I did some phone banking for Obama. I’m going to do whatever is needed for our Congresswoman, Lois Capps, CA 23rd district. Her Repub opponent has a lot of backing despite having a tax lien for $4000. In addition to his lien; the family farm owes the IRS too.
quannlace
‘Who can it be now? Who can it beeeee now?’
Sublime33
Phone banking for “Take Down Joe Walsh”. Can’t think of a more worthwhile cause.
Rathskeller
Phonebanking in California. I was initially bothered to call lots of Romney supporters, but now I feel like I’m updating the giant GOTV database, cell by cell. It’s a positive good to take someone off a list.
I was planning on doing GOTV on election weekend in Nevada, but I just an email from the campaign, looking for technically minded folks. That’s interesting.
FoxinSocks
I’ve been a Data Coordinator for a few weeks now, which is a fancy way of saying I do hours and hours of data entry. It’s a great way for us introverts to help the Obama campaign.
gumbo957
Our county Democratic party group is doing a very cool outreach to women voters in N.C., which is a KEY group for this election (in 2008, when Obama won NC, over 3 million women voted; in 2010, when the N.C. State Legislature turned Republican for the first time since the Civil War, only around 1.5 million women voted). When women vote, Democrats win.
So the outreach is hand writing letters and postcards to registered Democratic women who voted in 2008 but not in 2010 to try to get them back to the polls. Research shows that women are influenced in political matters more by their conversations with other women than anything else, even conversations with their spouses. I think this is especially true this year, given all of the horrible anti-woman policies on the state and national levels coming out of the GOP.
The goal is 10,000 letters just from our country group, and it’s looking good!
floridafrog
GOTV, phone banking, voter reg, data entry and volunteer recruitment – Please let November 6th come soon
Baud
@FoxinSocks:
Ha! I lazily said I was doing phone banking, when I should have said I’m doing data entry for phone bankers. I’m not so much introverted, but rather don’t trust myself to put a good face on the campaign when dealing with conservatives and fence-sitters.
lamh35
@debbie:
Just read this about Ohio. No real evidence, but I do know that my fam and friends on twitter both “brown” and “black” are very engaged and the voter suppression/ID laws are high motivaters.
What I do know is that the national urban radio shows (Tom Joyner, Rickey Smiley, Steve Harvey, Michael Baisden, are all doing daily political briefs on the day’s/week’s political news and also almost daily telling people to GOTV and reminding them that certain people are trying their darndest to silence your vote so make sure they are registered and if not to get registered and also once you are registered, how to make sure you have important info (dates, ID, times, etc) you need to know so that when you do go vote, you won’t have any hassle.
IMHO, there is no greater motivater than to tell people that the rights they have fought far are being threatened or comprimised in a bad way.
Restrictive voting laws inspire minority backlash
Restrictions now a rallying cry
Shadows mom
Data specialist for OFACA. So, I get up at 5 AM every day now to make sure the phone banks for my assigned teams have call lists. also creating user accounts, pulling I’m in lists for volunteer recruitment. About to start doing some training for data coordinators.
Donating money to BO and various other candidates.
Supporting a couple of local pols at state level
General Stuck
I just kicked a 40 year nicotine addiction. There are no unhealthy addictions that cannot be kicked.
dance around in your bones
Still tryin’ to get over the 5am wake-up by the grandkids.
1badbaba3
…and hey! Hey! Let’s be careful out there DougJ!
sacrablue
@Baud: That is my excuse, too! The kid that is coordinating volunteers in our office insists that he is going to get me on the phone before this is over. Not a chance.
Allan
Knocking doors and phonebanking for Dr. Ami Bera to retire Dan Lungren. Just taking a break before I finish my walk list.
Amir Khalid
@Maude:
Come back tomorrow night and try it again!
handy
Yes, DougJ, I hear you knocking.
sacrablue
@Allan: Elk Grove or Carmichael? I’ll be at Carmichael doing data entry later today.
VBKim
I’m housing a field organizer for Tim Kaine and I threw a houseparty 2 weeks ago for a Tim Kaine conference call. That actually was fun. When the f.o. asked me if I could do it, I was reluctant because this area of Tidewater is VERY red and I really don’t have many friends of the blue persuasion. But to my surprise ALL of the folks I asked came and we had a lovely time listening to Tim and yakking amongst ourselves about the trials of being a liberal here and of course, drinking wine. I will be starting to help in the office at the end of this week, phonebanking and whatnot. Please join me for a moment of prayer, entreaty, karma, reflection or WHATEVER, that George Allen will not be inflicted upon Virginia again.
phillygirl
Yup, South Philly. Man, people are so pissed off about the voter ID law that I think high turnout is guaranteed. (Besides, heh, as long as the ID requirements are rubbery, all the election officials here, who really, really want people to vote, will probably be quiiiiite cooperative.) This is loads of fun. Plus, every Saturday we get New Yorkers coming in to help. Bless your hearts, New orkers.
Nina-the-first
NY GOTV. Did lots more in years past in MA, but I just don’t know my way round NY as well I knew MA.
Percysowner
Phone banking in Ohio.
SiubhanDuinne
@Maude:
I have been missing A Mom Anon for quite a while. AMA, if you see this, I hope you are okay. Are you still in Atlanta?
Warren
@geg6: I was in Central MA last weekend, which is one of the most conservative parts of the state. Warren signs were outnumbering Brown signs more than 10 to 1, which I take as a good sign.
Christine Demos
I’m heading up a weekly Obama campaign phone bank for the Chicago 47th Ward Team, and have done and will do some more Wisconsin/Iowa canvassing work. Ongoing donations to Obama and several Senate and Congressional candidates, as well as DSCC and DCCC. And will be canvassing the weekend before the election in Iowa with my ex, who will be visiting from Spain. He loves the grassroots work, which doesn’t happen in Spain, and canvassed with me for 2008.
Redshift
@VBKim: Amen!
ms badger
Door knocking in Colorado HD 18 for Pete Lee. Coordinating a LTE campaign. Working fundraisers for the President.
SiubhanDuinne
@General Stuck:
Good for you. That’s HUGE!
gelfling545
Very sad that I will no longer be in Louise’s district after the election due to redistricting. She is dynamite.
Dee Loralei
I’ve been working with my local OFA for over a year now. Mostly lately we’ve been phone banking to NC. I’ve been making calls and doing data entry, plus I’m digital coordinator. Half my team are in Nashville today getting new marching orders for the final month push. The other half are holding a sign waving rally on a busy street corner.
22over7
@General Stuck:
Good on you. My beloved brother kicked a cig habit of similar duration, and I could not be prouder of him.
May you wake up every morning without smoker’s cough.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Thanks to all of you folks working so hard in the trenches. I’ve been donating what I can and trying to convert some fence-sitters I know, but I don’t have the time or constitution to do the real work that you folks are doing. Kudos and thank you!
Cheers,
Scott.
Maude
@SiubhanDuinne:
I was hoping you’d see my comment. You and I miss her. I don’t know why she popped into my head. That accident was quite a blow and her son was in the car.
Capt. Seaweed
I’m blogging today. Blogging my ass off.
Actually, phone banking. My congressidiot is in a safe arr dist but we’ll be a blue state again. Thanks to my help. I’m welcome.
Ash Can
Data entry for OfA, 41st ward Chicago.
General Stuck
I’ll just be glad when this shit is over, and it won’t be as necessary in my own mind to defend this good and maybe great man as PBO. Not only from the malignant attacks from the right, but non stop disrespect and equally malignant attacks from his own side replete with equal lies that from the right and using sometimes with racist frames. But with a snake eye grin of claiming to be helpful. It has been an eye opening lesson for me and I suspect many others.
In a second term, Obama will be freed of the need to campaign for reelection, and can pretty follow his soul towards creating a legacy that puts the bullshit lies to the wanking of wingnuts and firebaggers alike. It will likely be difficult to very unlikely the insane republicans will do their duty as loyal opposition, even if more of them want to after the election. As They are in the tertiary throws of political meltdown at the core level.
But like on so many things the past fours years, Obama will prove the professional left even more wrong, at least with an altruistic effort from who he is unfettered by the need for reelection. The haters can suck eggs and stew in their self righteous shit, for what I care. They have contributed nothing the past 4 years blathering bullshit on the internet, mostly for their own self importance. And have nearly always ended up proven wrong, but now want to claim credit for where we are now as a coalition with an excellente president. Even with about everything else out there being FUBAR.
To the faithful out there, through thick and thin, I salute you. As well as the principled dissenters. For the mealy mouth whiny wonders, you can ass my ass then die in a firebagger.
And yes, I’m cranky, after days and days of reading horseshit on this sometimes fine blog. Not recently.
Ash Can
@Maude:
@SiubhanDuinne:
I see A Mom Anon all the time at LGF. She seems fine. Is this something that just happened in the past day or two?
Elizabelle
Door knocking in Virginia.
On some doors with “Romney” yard signs.
Finding several mixed marriages out there.
Strontium 90
Got my first door to door GOTV knock here in (a pretty red part of) Houston. Very focused on the downticket races for state leg., judges etc. No Romney signs or bumper stickers to speak of. It kind of feels like the Republicans are going to stay home around here. Maybe the D’s can score a few upsets (the odious Sarah Davis – my state rep – being No. 1 on the list).
Strontium 90
In other news, WVA better f*cking cover. 70 to 56 with 5 minutes left in the game!!!
Maude
@Ash Can:
I don’t know why I’ve been thinking of her. I am glad she’s okay.
Maude
@General Stuck:
Obama abandoned his base, they whine. He’s not doing what they think he should do.
He’s the best president in my lifetime and I doubt we’ll see another one like him.
gogol's wife
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Ditto. Sending money is all I have time for. But I appreciate all your efforts, it’s great.
Mike in NC
Got home from work last night and noted a “Romney/Ryan” lawn sign right next door. I’d heard our neighbors had been attending a number of teabagger events the past couple of years. They’re of the ‘took early retirement buyout/IGMFU’ type.
mcmullje
Yes, In Denver, CO our lovely Republican Secretary of State passed a new law that says that if you didn’t vote in the 2010 election, your voter registration has to be updated or you will not receive a mail-in ballot in 2012. You can still vote – at the polls, but for elderly and poor transportation can be an issue. In addition the whole ID thing becomes an issue at the polls.
I went door to door one weekend and then stood outside a grocery store last Sunday and got people to update their registration.
lamh35
Cutest picture ever from the Obama FB page!
BTW, this is the original caption from the FB post…soo cute!
“Oval Office, how may I help you”
Spaghetti Lee
(Pardon me; Asked this a while back, didn’t stay up late enough to see if got answered)
I registered by mail in MO on Wednesday-how will I know that it’s gone through without any snags? Will I get something in the mail?
WereBear
@lamh35: That is too adorable!
I love his little bow tie.
The Fat Kate Middleton
Here in south-central Iowa, phone banking one or two nights a week, canvassing/voter registration on Sundays. Just last night, told some regional OFA guy they could use my home as a ‘staging place’ for this precinct. Like someone else here mentioned, I get hives just thinking about phoning and canvassing, but it’s important, and I’m doing it, dammit.
Hungry Joe
Sending $$, phone banking, and precinct walking. Some for Obama, but also putting in time in the San Diego mayoral race (for Bob Filner; Carl DeMaio is a vile Norquist spawn) and anti-Prop 32, which would gut unions.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
GOTV. Jefferson County (Colorado) Dems have a postcard-writing campaign; it’s targeting households with at least 3 Dem voters who have not voted recently (IOW, getting them off their tails). I’ve got a pack to write from home to send out. There’s an Obama office not far from here (close to my usual grocery store, in fact); I may see if they want help with data entry. I am an introvert and don’t do well phone banking or canvassing. Have also given some coin where I can.
Mary G
Been sending what money I can to Obama and this week took out some savings and sent a little bit to senate campaigns on the line. Not really physically up for door knocking/phone banking, but wishing I was. Put up my Obama “HOPE” yardsign from 2008 just to annoy all my neighbors. It still looks good .
@General Stuck: Congratulations! Next month I will be off cigarettes for 30 years. I had to quit when they hit $1 a pack due to terminal poorness, stayed quit when I felt so much better even at a relatively young age.
My mom quit after 45 years of smoking at the same time – we are a very competitive family – and I am sure she lasted a lot longer than she would have if she had kept up the three-packs-of-Marlboros-a-day habit. Even after all this time, I still get the odd craving, mostly at bars due to social anxiety, but I will never smoke again. So nice to get a monkey like that off your back.
Maude
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
I love the nym. I was going to tell you to keep your shirt on.
Edit, oops.
Yutsano
@WereBear: Bowties are cool.
I’m limited to what I can do due to my profession. Having said that, I can certainly donate, and I will for certain next month when finances are a bit better. Yay three paycheck month plus raise!
General Stuck
@Mary G:
Thanks Mary. But the monkey at this point was a snuff habit as I quit smoking twelve years ago. Just switching delivery systems for nicotine. But the addictive nature of nicotine is the same. Since I’m a wuss, I was able to quit upon finding some very good non tobacco, all herbal snuff. I was surprised they made the stuff, but glad they did.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ash Can: That’s a relief. Miss her over here but I’m glad she’s okay and posting.
Maude knows about an accident; I don’t, and if it doesn’t violate AMA’s privacy, hope to learn more.
@Maude: When was the accident? Sometimes I get busy and miss out on whole threads, and then feel stupid when everyone else knows about something that has completely passed me by. I take it her son was in an accident recently? I remember a fender-bender a year or so ago but unless I completely misread things, I guess I hadn’t thought it was that serious.
R-Jud
@General Stuck: Good work. Now I need a favor: Can you head up to PA and have a word with my mother, please? The smoking annoys me even more than her love of Jimmy Buffett.
Steeplejack
@General Stuck:
Congratulations, Stuck! Good work.
General Stuck
@R-Jud:
LOL, I would, but am pretty sure very few people have been talked into quitting. The desire has to come from within, and be stronger than the addiction — that is very very powerful with nicotine.
General Stuck
@Steeplejack:
thanks
KimL
Phone banking for Elizabeth Warren. It’s interesting, here in Massachusetts – here’s a picture of my mail today.
Maude
@SiubhanDuinne:
Someone hit her car. She told about it here. I think the car was ruined, but I don’t remember. It was a while ago.
DougJ
@dance around in your bones:
Great song, right?
northquirk
I just got back from canvassing in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. I’ll do that & other volunteer work until the election. My friend and I also started POWERAGETTES as a sort of GOTV/equal rights organization. Right now we’re just selling buttons & donating the proceeds, but hope to do more…
eemom
I donate. I passed around some yard signs today.
I am time challenged for other work. Also I hate talking to strangers for the purpose of trying to persuade them to something…..and I really, REALLY hate arguing with stupid people. Preaching to the choir is my true calling, I freely admit.
Congrats on the nicotine-kicking, General!
dance around in your bones
@DougJ:
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
….
Hear me growlin’
Gex
I’ve been volunteering for Minnesotans United for All Families. Money’s gone to OFA, Elizabeth Warren, and DSCC.
Facebook efforts have been spent teaching people I know the difference between free markets and competitive markets, and how Republicans and Libertarians sell you on the benefits of the latter but push policies for the former.
The other concept I’m trying to convince them of is that market economies require unemployment to control wages and inflation. And that it is really shitty to claim this is the best system ever and then treat the people who make it possible with the kind of contempt they do, all while talking about Christian values.
feebog
I’m working for the Democrat running in California’s 38th Assembley District. We are in a R+ 7 district, but Ed Headington beat all three Republican opponents in the Primary. He has since received the endorsement of one of those candidates. It is going to be a very tough slog, but we are in it to win it, and I did a lot of phone banking in the primary. Tomorrow we have a fund raiser in Santa Clarita, and I will most likely attend that.
gravie
I love Louise! Sorry to say that I haven’t been doing anything so far this year except donating money and fighting with right-wing friends on FB. I’d better get crackin’…
Allan
@sacrablue: Cool. I was walking my neighborhood in Folsom. You’ll probably be receiving my walk lists in a few minutes.
Very few people home, only the registered Ds actually knew that there’s an election coming and who’s running.
dance around in your bones
Ok, here’s another Keep a Knockin’ by Little Richard.
Or perhaps Louis Jordan
Ok, so it’s not can’t you hear me knockin’, but it’s close!
I know you been drinkin’ gin.
TooManyJens
I just got home from canvassing for Gill in IL-13. We’re using lists of people who have been identified as likely to be undecided/persuadable. On any given shift, most people aren’t home, but of the ones who are, I usually get a couple of Davis supporters, a few Gill supporters, and some undecideds who are genuinely interested in more information (and who usually perk up when they hear “Wall Street reform”). If that’s what the people in the middle look like, we’re in decent shape. But then, Gill needs to win big around here because C-U is more Democratic than the rest of the district.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Random encounters today:
– a car with a WorldNetDaily bumper sticker
– two women wearing Romney/Ryan ball caps
I haven’t seen many (as in a total of one) R/R yard signs even with having to travel out into the sticks several times the last few weeks.
Greg
I’m in Wisconsin trying to knock 2000 doors before election day for Obama and Tammy. I’m almost to 400 now, but I had to quit early today because one of my shoes wore out.
Marc
Just got back from canvassing for Obama in northern Virginia. (Just starting to roll the Tim Kaine canvass in with that as well.) Turnout-focused canvass, everybody we met was an Obama supporter, and a surprisingly good rate of people answering their doors.
I would much rather knock on doors than phone bank. People are usually much nicer when you show up at their house in person, and you get to hear some great stories like the first-time voter who just registered two days ago because her mom gave her a hard time, or the woman who’s going to be taking a cruise on election day but got absentee ballots for herself and all her friends. These are by and large people who don’t pay a whole lot of attention to politics, they don’t know who Chuck Todd or David Brooks are and they don’t give a damn, but they know and like Obama.
Oh, here’s a great story from two weeks ago. My wife couldn’t go down to canvass with me, so I randomly got partnered up with a 78-year-old woman. On the drive down she told me that she used to work for the Department of Labor and then she casually mentioned, “Oh, in the 1960s President Kennedy sent me to integrate an FHA office in Texas.”
This was an office that never had a black employee before, and wasn’t approving any loans for black applicants.
Now she’s knocking on doors to re-elect Barack Obama.
ruemara
Just came back from manning (womanning?) the tables for the local county democratic party and the OB/JoeB 2012 effective party. 12 registrations and over $100 for the re-election effort. Plus, I think I did my part to educate and fire up our younger peeps.
Bob h
In NJ-11 in behalf of John Avranites vs. Rodney Freilinghuysen.
Bob h
In NJ-11 in behalf of John Avranites vs. Rodney Freilinghuysen.
John
I just got back from my first door knocking session for Obama in New Kensington, PA. Met some great supporters of Obama and a significant number of individuals who have watched too much Fox News and listened to too much talk radio.
Plan to be back out on the street on Saturday mornings until the election.
The local democratic party seems to be in a disarray with very little canvassing for local candidates. Repubs in Western PA are rolling in party and special interest money. Perhaps that explains why Westmoreland County, PA with a 20% margin of democrats over republicans elected its first republican majority on the County Commission since the 1940s.
Mike Kellar
I volunteered to be a Campaign Manager for a Dem running for State Rep in PA (www.voteforfearn.com). Working my butt off for the whole D ticket. Doing everything and learning a lot…
Mike Kellar
I volunteered to be a Campaign Manager for a Dem running for State Rep in PA (www.voteforfearn.com). Working my butt off for the whole D ticket. Doing everything and learning a lot…
Wombat
Door knocking for Elizabeth on Cape Cod. There are a disturbing number of signs for McDreamy Brown in Orleans. Need to run over a few.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Maude: You make me laugh. I keel you last.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Marc: This to nth power:
Shadow's Mom
@Spaghetti Lee: The one way I know I’m still on the rolls is that election material starts showing up in my mail box.
You can also check out: canivote.org
That will link you to your state election dept/commission/whatever and you can confirm your status.
SBJules
@feebog:
My brother & sisterin law recently moved into @feebog: to Oak Park. They should helpwith the “good” guys.
Petorado
Phone banking, voter registration, and donations, so far.
But today at the kid’s soccer game, a man well into his 80’s was out there gathering voter registrations from the grown-ups. His earnestness touched all the parents, giving us a clearer window into what folks past retirement age are envisioning at as they look at the possibility of Romney in charge. It hit us all like a ton of bricks. Mail-in ballots arrive in about two weeks. Can’t freakin’ wait.
slag
You go, DougJ! Respect. And that goes to everyone else here who’s been doing the job as well. I’ve been slacking so far. You all inspire me to stop slacking…eventually.
MADINEZ
I’m currently knocking on doors for Julia Brownley (CA-26). I have no concept of how close our district is though. I’m told it’s close. Most of the neighborhoods where I’ve been so far have been neighborhoods where there isn’t exactly a lot of support for our Republican friends. And word to the folks that found that people often respond better to having people talk to them in person. I had a really great experience yesterday. I had a woman first comment that she hadn’t really heard anything from our opposition, and she thought that it was important that we were out there. And I think there’s almost a novelty to the door to door thing here, since we used to be part of a not so competitive district (Not that that was a bad thing. Peace to @SBJules, Lois Capps is my representative until the next Congress). Anyway, we got to talking and in the process she actually called over some of the younger folks in her family and we got into this whole thing about what’s at stake in this election. I feel like I was reinforcing what she’d been telling these kids for weeks. And I was glad to help.
So yeah…going outside is a pretty cool thing to do.
EuroVet
No.
I won’t do it… well actually, doesn’t work here.
I live overseas in Europe… been here since daddy Bush.
I’m still quite involved in politics abroad, a Republican, and before any of you get all riled up – I vote for the man, not the party. Romney’s trip to Europe earlier was a bungling fiasco – too embarrassing for words… I’ll once again go with keeping this President in. His foreign policies have been above fare and personally, are extremely important to us.
Sir, anyone willing to put in the ground work where it really counts gets my full respect. Thank you.
(fresh out of military service, I met my long-time partner when he came knocking on my door in London canvassing for Blair… you never know, please volunteer – you may meet someone of like-mind)