Door-to-door again

My car showed a temperature of 24 F. And it was windy. Bitterly cold. Not an ideal day for campaigning at all, but the Edwards campaign is relentless - rain or shine or snow or cold, folks are out there.

This time there were more people for Hillary than last time, though there were still many undecideds. Sigh. Lot of work to do before we can get Edwards elected.

We did half the streets we had to do on that day, and on one street we were right behind a Ron Paul campaigner. On another street we saw Obama's campaign a couple of houses ahead of us, at which point we decided to give up and go home and come back the next day - we didn't think voters would take kindly to 3 campaigns visiting them in the space of 15 minutes. This is going to be the trend till January 8th I think, as all the campaigns become more and more aggressive.

The Edwards campaign (and all other campaigns I am sure), have grassroots campaigning down to an art. Every voter has to be visited at least twice. If they are not home, we leave a booklet by the door, and the campaign follows up in a couple of days with a call asking whether the voter has any questions on the booklet. Jack, the staff member in charge of wards 1 and 3, knows practically every Edwards voter in his wards. Edwards voters are called to see whether they would be volunteers. All the data we collect on who will vote for whom is meticulously stored in the database, and will be used on election day - when we make sure that everyone who has said they will vote for Edwards makes it to the polls. Every vote counts!