Over the past few days, I’ve stopped to thank and visit with volunteers who are making a difference in our field offices across the state.
What amazes me about our volunteers is their commitment, and their view that the only poll that matters is the one taken on Election Day. It would be easy to look at the public polls showing us up and assume they could take it easy – that making the calls and knocking on the doors isn’t really important any more, but in every office, any time of day, they are hard at work.
Last week I was in our office in Smyrna when a volunteer came up to me and declared that she didn’t care what the polls said because the election was too important for her to chance it. She said that her Republican friends were starting to warm to our opponent and didn’t trust the conventional wisdom.
She’s right, and we need everyone to listen to her message.
This election is too important for any one of us to let up one bit. Every night when I get home I’m more tired than the last, but each morning when I wake up I’m even more excited to get out and talk to voters about our state and our nation, and how we can come together to get things back on track.
With just five days left, it’s all hands on deck here as we fight for this Senate seat, to take back Delaware’s seat in the House of Representatives by electing John Carney, to elect good Democrats to statewide offices, and to keep the critical Democratic control of Delaware’s state House of Representatives.
The most important thing you can do is to get out over the next few days and volunteer. With just a couple hours of your time you can reach dozens of voters and make sure not only do they come out on Tuesday and cast their ballots, but that they vote Democratic.
This election is not over, and our volunteer was right – the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day. It’s time to get fired up, show up, and make the difference on Election Day. The stakes for our families and our country are too high to sit this one out.
I'm eager to talk more about the election and the importance of getting out to vote, so I’ll be sticking around for the next 20 minutes to chat in the comments.