Election Day!!!

What a long journey it has been to finally arrive at this day. The news stories from around the world are filled with anticipation and held breath as the United States heads to the polls. I have butterflies flitting about in my stomach – please let us not screw this one up!

My [...]

Volunteering for the Campaign for Change: Day 3

OK – I’m whooped. The Obama staff sent me out to canvass the neighborhoods this afternoon. My job was to knock on the doors of known Obama supporters and make sure they got their butts to the polls. The most important thing at this stage of the game is to make sure that people know [...]

Volunteering for the Campaign for Change: Day 2

I went and tackled some more phone calls today. I must have called well over 200 people today. Unfortunately, most were either not home or had caller ID because I didn’t get to speak with very many people.

There are quite a lot of volunteers that keep showing up at the Obama headquarters which [...]

Volunteering for the Campaign For Change

Today was my first day of volunteering for Barack Obama’s campaign. I spent four hours at the local Obama campaign headquarters and called a bunch of random folks who were on a call list. I probably called 150-200 people, most of whom weren’t home. Of the ones who I did get to speak a few [...]

Steamboat Springs City Council Campaigning Underway

Hold on to your butts everybody – we got us an election comin’ up! This here cow town is gonna elect themselves a new City Council. And what a fine selection of candidates they have to choose from. I say they, because I (thankfully) do not live within city limits and therefore cannot vote for [...]