Friday, November 21, 2008

Volunteering- Post 3

  • Finally came my last day with Obama's Strike Force, also known as the OSF, as I went out to do some good-old phone-banking. So as I went out on a late October morning I was surprised to find no packets with maps and brochures waiting for me as I expected. Instead there were a few cell phones and slightly different checklists with things like "Left Message" instead of "Not Home." The phones we used were all exactly alike and we spent a good 3 hours calling people and calling people and calling people. This got extremely repetitive, extremely fast; much faster than my experience as a canvasser. But at least I got to sit with some friends to do the phone-banking and make fun of our mistakes... it would have been much more tiresome without friends for company.
  • Speaking of my canvassing experience, here is a very happy picture of me going to one special house(it was the last one on my checklist) to change people's minds and get them to vote for Obama!
  • And finally, here I am showing off my packet, with the brochures out and in front of me. We were expected to give a brochure to every person we talked to and leave a brochure at every unavailable person's doorsstep, thus we got about 100 of these per packet.

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