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Today I do the phone thing

By Ron Amundson - Feb 7th, 2008 at 1:21 am EST

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Minnesota has done a great thing.... now, we need to help remaining states.

I'm committing to making 5 phone calls today to see how it goes. The scripts make it look pretty easy, and in reading others blogs, it appears this is incredibly effective. Much more so than the auto dialers and robot recordings used by Hillary. Ie, it appears if the person reached is open to discussion, huge doors can be opened, even apart from just encouraging folks to participate. Considering I felt myself pretty close to a Neocon not that many years ago, and was only 3 steps of separation from President Bush, my story may make an impact. On the other hand, its likely I may not even have to go that far. I've prepped myself on the issues, and will be putting a folder of Barack's issues together so I should be good to go.

I must admit, its taken a few days.... I hate phone calls, I really hate robotic dialers and recorded messages. However, it is likely I am in the minority on the phone call part, but not on the recorded message part. There are just too many success stories to not put forth the effort.

Some may wonder why I'm committing to only 5 calls... I chose 5, as 5 calls are easy, and quick. 20, seems like it would be a better goal, but being I dislike the phone... could serve to encourage procrastination, and time is something we are running short on, with Louisiana, Washington, and Nebraska on tap for the 9th. I'll post an update tomorrow evening.

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By Ron Amundson Feb 8th 2008 at 5:53 pm EST

It turns out its pretty simple, and not very time consuming at all. The average call time ended up being 90 seconds, so allocating 30 minutes to handle 20 calls seems quite reasonable. I am going to put in some additional phone calls this evening, once my cell switches over to free airtime. My guess is a lot of folks are not around their phones during the daytime hours, as out of 40 calls, I left over 30 messages.

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By Rev Bry Feb 21st 2008 at 11:39 pm EST

Thanks for all you help!!

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