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By Connie W - May 5th, 2008 at 9:54 pm EDT

It is now the night before the IN and NC primaries and I am now back from my trip to NC. I came home feeling very positive about NC. I had an awesome time. I arrived on Thursday. I had rented a car at the airport and had a few things I had to do. So I took care of those things and headed to find a hotel. Friday morning I headed to the Greensboro Obama office to meet Lindsey. There were several people there bright and early. I met the guy who flew from England to canvass (my hero) and also Suzannah, from TX, who I ended up spending the day with. Suzannah and I took 2 people to the voting booth (they had early voting there) and also canvassed at 105 homes. It was great. Saturday I drove to Lexington to meet up with a high school friend I haven't seen in 9 years. Armed with my GPS, I found Lexington and met my friend Sue. We went to the Lexington Obama office where we met Scott. Sue and I went to around 70 homes and again, it was a very positive day. Many people there had already early voted for Barack. I headed back to Greensboro...on the way back I went to the African Art store at the mall and picked up some very cool Obama tees and a baseball cap. The went back to the Greensboro office and helped prepare the Obama door hangers for the next day. These were going to be put on the doors with stickers telling people where their particular voting booths are. I stayed there till around 9:30pm. This was so much fun....we laughed and sang. Headed back there at 11am Sunday morning and went out canvassing with Joan, who was from Alabama. Joan and I canvassed hanging door hangers until around 2:00 then I had to head to the airport. I sure wish I could still be there helping out, but I am so happy that I was able to continue with this amazing journey and I cannot wait to do more....I can look back and remember all the wonderful people I met and the fantastic people I talked to and connected with over the course of those 3 days....especially the man who made me laugh asking me about my Barack t-shirt and the awesome flight attendant who even sat down to talk to me about Senator Obama because he saw me wearing my Obama tee on the flight home. (btw he is a supporter and will be voting for him in November!) But the most positive memory will be working with a great team of people with all one goal in mind, having Senator Obama win NC, making him our nominee and our next President!!!! Yes We Can..

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From Buffalo NY to Greensboro NC

By Connie W - Apr 30th, 2008 at 10:01 pm EDT

Wow, it's Wednesday evening April 30th and I am heading to Greensboro NC tomorrow to canvass for Barack. And I'm going alone! If you asked me a year ago if I would be doing this, I would have said, no way!!!! I was never into politics. I attended a Kerry party, that was the extent of my political involvement. That is until Senator Obama's run for POTUS. I got involved a bit later in the campaign and I only canvassed in Erie PA twice and volunteered at his Town Hall there, but I had such a great time talking to people about why I'm supporting Senator Obama, that I just had to get out and do more. I put the word out but nobody was able to take a road trip. So I called Delta and asked what I could do with my Sky Mile Points...I was able to get a round trip ticket!! I rented a car as I'm actually meeting up with a high school friend that lives in Lexington that I haven't seen in about 7 years, so I am canvassing there too!! Not sure who will even read this, but if I have access to the internet, I'll post an update.....if not, I'll update when I get home....

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