Two years ago, I was in Youngstown, Ohio walking door-to-door canvassing for Senator Barack Obama. The snow was literally coming down sideways that first day. I had committed to spending ten days hundreds of miles away from my family and away from my demanding job as an attorney (to my partners' chagrin).
I put myself up in a crappy hotel off a highway for those ten days, ate cold pizza when I wasn't canvassing, listened to voters tell me how they were voting for anyone but my candidate, got threatened with an attack dog by a Ron Paul supporter, worked 14 hour days, and came down with pneumonia.
And I would do it all over again. In a heartbeat.
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