I'm sure that it's hardly shocking that I would have spend the last weekend before the election knocking on doors of complete strangers and trying to persuade them to vote for Barack Obama, Jeanne Shaheen (U.S. Senate candidate) and Carol Shea-Porter (U.S. House). What you might find shocking is that I LOVE this kind of work. I love talking to people who probably wish I would just leave their porch. And I love, more than anything, early morning visibility (standing on a busy street holding a sign, preferably homemade and jumping up and down like a lunatic to show your enthusiasm for your candidate.) I just love it all. It was the part of politics that first attracted me to pursue a career electing women. After all of the galas, the nice dinners and the "grip and grin" events, there is absolutely nothing like talking to a voter about what matters to them, and why your candidate is someone who will work to make their lives better. No champagne, no passed bacon-wrapped scallops. Just the stuff that really matters.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Get Out the Vote in New Hampshire
I'm sure that it's hardly shocking that I would have spend the last weekend before the election knocking on doors of complete strangers and trying to persuade them to vote for Barack Obama, Jeanne Shaheen (U.S. Senate candidate) and Carol Shea-Porter (U.S. House). What you might find shocking is that I LOVE this kind of work. I love talking to people who probably wish I would just leave their porch. And I love, more than anything, early morning visibility (standing on a busy street holding a sign, preferably homemade and jumping up and down like a lunatic to show your enthusiasm for your candidate.) I just love it all. It was the part of politics that first attracted me to pursue a career electing women. After all of the galas, the nice dinners and the "grip and grin" events, there is absolutely nothing like talking to a voter about what matters to them, and why your candidate is someone who will work to make their lives better. No champagne, no passed bacon-wrapped scallops. Just the stuff that really matters.
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Really Amie, really? I can't say that I equally enjoy spending time with voters giving me the bird at 6am while I'm stradeling the median of a busy intersection, waving a campaign sign and dodging fertilizer trucks that keep losing some of their load out of their truck bed into our vacinity. Pass me a shrimp puff any day of the week.
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