Volunteer Blog

On Sunday October 19th I volunteered for Obama. Even though I was hoping I wouldn't get canvassing for the first day I was given it. My area was the Ferndale area. Basically they gave me a list of residents living in that area that were registered democrats and the list also had they're voting tendencies. They were either sporadic, which meant they occasionally vote Democratic but they were not 100% voters. Then there were Target voters which meant they probably need convincing. While on my way to my area I met another canvasser. Since I was a little nervous this was my first time, he gave me a few tips. He told me not to worry, don't take it personally , and that a lot of people aren't going to answer their doors anyways. Well I got to my area and I looked at my list and materials. I had a sheet that told me Obama's key points,but the other canvasser told me to just summarize it instead of reading a lot of it. Now depending if they were either Sporadic or Target they would get some type of literature. The sporadic people got one piece of paper with the candidate and a big reminder on the other side to vote. While the Target people got a whole brochure basically because they needed more convincing. Well I started and I was discouraged a first because nobody was answering their door. But this could have been due to the redskins game being on or the fact that I was given a area that had been done once or twice already. I got a few people who opened their door and most of them were for Obama, I ignored the houses that had McCain propaganda,not that their were many anyways. Me being fluent in Spanish also came in handy since the area is predominately Latino. After a few hours I got more people but I still didn't get as many as I had hoped for. After going through the whole list I tried to go back to the people that didn't answer but It was getting dark and it was already cold. Overall it was a learning experience but I will be the first to say I wasn't too good of a canvasser

I will post some pictures once I find them on my computer.