For the past week I’ve been making calls out of my very red state for the campaign. It’s a tough business, definitely not for the insecure. And it’s a roller coaster; you’re either high off a score or low off a hang-up or worse.
I’m an attorney and I’ve been calling attorneys in Indiana trying to recruit them to help with the Voter Protection Program there. Most people in Indiana have been very polite. Kudos to the nice folks in Indiana!
A couple of people have been rude, and surprisingly they were attorneys who said they were Obama supporters, but who resented being called at home. (They have to be litigators, right?) I don’t like phone solicitations either; but I’d never be rude to an Obama volunteer – sheesh!
I just had the nicest conversation with a retired judge in Kendalville, whose wife was at that moment phonebanking for Obama at the local office. Then I interrupted the dinner of a nice family whose Mom said had been on the fence until very recently. She said, "My daughter came home and said ‘I’m voting for Obama.’" I asked her what her daughter’s reasoning was, and she said, "Well, the Obama’s have one car, and they have student loans like I do. They’re just like we are. The McCains have a lot of cars, and they don’t care about people like us."
Just the shot in the arm I needed to keep going. We can do this, guys.