Ann of Muscatine, Iowa, is 77 years young. But she doesn’t let age get in the way of her campaign volunteer work. She’s phonebanked, held house meetings, and even was a precinct captain for Obama. “There’s a lot of young people on the campaign,” she says, “but I like working with young people!”She’s also donated multiple times. “It’s just so easy to do on the website!” she says. She lives in what she describes as a “very Republican town,” but assures us that the Obama presence is strong there. “The Democrats have won some local elections recently, and we’re hoping to get more Republicans and Independents on board with Obama.” “We’re quite active here,” she says. Ann’s three grown daughters and three granddaughters have all been working with her on the campaign.
It was wonderful to work together with my granddaughters. They were nervous about volunteering at first, but pretty soon they got really into it and went right after people!
Ann, who owns a small preschool, supports Obama because “he seems to have a lot of integrity, and that’s important right now. We need new, fresh ideas.” The issue that concerns Ann the most in the upcoming election is getting out of Iraq. “We’re all concerned about the war,” she says. “Here in Muscatine, we’ve lost some young people in Iraq, as every community has. I want our soldiers to come home.”
If we can get out of Iraq, we’ll have more money to spend on other things to help our country. And that’s something Barack Obama will help do for us.
Today is National Grandparents Day, created to honor proud grandparents like Ann. To mark the occasion, we’ve created special Obama e-cards that you can send to your grandparents to let them know just how much they mean to you, why you are involved with the Obama campaign and why their support is important to you.
Voices for Change is a series featuring profiles of Barack Obama's grassroots supporters from across the nation. The people who make up this movement come from all different backgrounds, but they share a common goal of helping bring about fundamental change in Washington.
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Democrats post big gains in voter registration . . . The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. . . . . . Since the last federal election in 2006, volunteers like Graham combined with the enthusiasm generated by the Obama-Clinton struggle to add more than 2 million Democrats to voter rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states. . . . Both Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, are fighting for independent swing voters, and many of the new Democrats had been unaffiliated voters. The number of unaffiliated voters dropped by nearly 900,000 since 2006. Many joined the Democratic Party to take part in the primaries and caucuses, and now they will now be targeted by an aggressive get-out-the-vote campaign. . . . Nationwide, there are about 42 million registered Democrats and about 31 million Republicans, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press. The Democrats have posted big gains in many competitive states, including Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado and Florida. They have also been targeting historically Republican southern states. Since 2006, the Democrats have added 167,000 voters in North Carolina, while the Republicans have added 36,000. The Democrats' biggest voter registration goal is in Georgia, where the Obama campaign hopes to register 500,000 voters before the election, said Dean, who has spent the past month traveling the country on a voter registration bus tour. . . . In Pennsylvania, the Democrats have added 375,000 voters since 2006 while the Republicans have lost 117,000. . . .
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