My first canvassing experience for the Obama campaign

Kenz — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:00:12 EDT

Summary: the Obama campaign needs help in NH, especially in the parts north of Keene.
I plan to volunteer to drive voters to the polls in NH on November 4th, and to call voters in swing states. You can help from home by making phone calls to swing states and using the "Neighbor to Neighbor" tool on this site; you can contact an Obama campaign office and canvass with a partner in a swing state; or you can do data entry, or sign holding.

Yesteday was the first day that I joined the organized Obama campaign. I participated by canvassing in two New Hampshire towns. I joined at the office in Keene, which sent me and my canvassing partner to the town of Swanzey. Later, my base was at a family's home in Stoddard, which sent me to the town of Sullivan.

In Keene, a campaigner gave us a brief how-to on canvassing, and gave us a well-organized folder with directions to neighborhoods, a "script" to help us organize our approach, and list of voters with information on them (party, sex, and sometimes age) and information for us to note about talking to them (which presidential, US Senate, and US House candidate they support; did they wish to be called or emailed; would they volunteer for the campaign). We were given literature on the candidates to leave at the doors of people who weren't home. I brought a GPS navigational device, but the campaign gave us a map anyway. The Stoddard campaigners organized in a way similar to the campaigners at the small warehouse where the Keene canvass organizers met, but they did not give us informational pamphlets to leave for absent residents.

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My first canvassing experience for the Obama campaign