They saw his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and started following his career. When he announced that he was running for President, they were so excited. Theresa got involved online but when the Ohio primary start to come up, she felt compelled to do more.
I felt so motivated to be active. He is the only candidate that is talking about - and pushing for - bringing people together. I just started pushing for him, and then we got involved full-time.We opened a 4-H office in Cleveland with our daughter. We donated all the supplies so that they could get running. Then we would go from office to office getting walk packets to canvass the city.
We went six-weekends in a row. Two for voter registration and four for Get Out The Vote efforts. At first, they didn't know what to do with us because they were used to young people doing visibility. But they gave us walk-packets and we registered over 100 people in two weekends. We're still friends and keep in touch with the people we met in Pittsburgh.We love it. We would get up at 5AM, be in Pittsburgh by 10, walk in, grab walk packets, and canvass until 6PM straight. We had a 300 percent voter turnout, with a 95 percent vote for Obama in our primary.Theresa has the summer off, so she will be doing this full-time, but I still have my IT job. This will be like a second job to me - I'll do it at night and on the weekends. But we can't think of anything better that we would want to do.
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