Daniel Solovay's Blog

40 Calls to Navada

Dan Solovay — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:11:33 EST

Some good contacts, about 50/50 Obama and the other guy. But most of the Obama voters had already voted.

But I'm pooped! It's 10 PM, and I'm going to let the west coast people take over.

Tomorrow is Election Day, and the serious calling starts!

25 calls to the Centenial State

Dan Solovay — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:09:16 EST

Of the handful of calls that went through, I'd say about two thirds had already voted. A good sign.

OK, keep it up team on Monday--let's put this thing away!

Overconfidence alert

Dan Solovay — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:06 EST

OK, the map looks pretty good. If you take the current NYT map, give all the toss ups to McCain, plus PA, our guy still ends up with 270. Scares me. Keep calling!!!!!

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/key-states/map.html#/map=MMH6c

100 Calls to the Old Dominion

Dan Solovay — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:56:32 EST

I've made about 100 GOTV calls to Virginia. Very positive responses on the last 25: "I'm wearing my Obama tee-shirt right now", "This is a no brainer", "This is so important", and "I'm with you guys!" Very positive. Not feeling relaxed, but I am feeling encouraged.

Gonna step it up!!!!

Dan Solovay — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:12:33 EDT

Goal: Make calls from 8PM (kid's tuck in time) to 9PM each day this week, 2 hours on Saturday, 3 hours on Sunday.

Plus: I'm going to talk to my boss about taking Tuesday off. NH here I come!!

33 calls from home!

Dan Solovay — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:08:43 EDT

While my older kids were at swimming lessons, and my 5 year old was taking a nap, I sat down at my computer, and after reading through the script about a dozen times... made some calls! Lots of no answers, machines, etc., but a number of solid contacts--2 for our side, 1 for McCain, but she was very polite about it. The strangest call was someone who saw my number on his missed call list, called me back, and when he heard I was a volunteering for the campaign, announced very firmly, "I don't vote!"

Started!

Dan Solovay — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:32:16 EDT

69 phone calls later... tired but satisfied. The staff and volunteers at the Arlington MA office were great--a real feeling of support and camaraderie. Only disappointment was I mostly spoke to people's answering machines. Thanks especially to Myrna who walked me through a mock call--I was REALLY nervous to start.

Tomorrow and Sunday I'll starting working my N2N list and see if I can talk to some humans!

Getting started

Dan Solovay — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:41:01 EDT

OK, it's late in the game, but I'm doing my part. I just printed out my list of 30 NH voters to call from home, and I'm going to a phone bank event this afternoon. Putting my day off to work! I'll post later on how it goes.

Wish me luck! I've never done this before.