It is only a few months until November. Some primaries have come and gone but there is work to do. Canvassing needs to be done to update the basic information - where our voters live, what their phone number is etc. Phone banking needs to be done to keep up with the trend lines and pull in those interested voters and find volunteers.
Only a few people are actually paid in a campaign. The rest come from us political junkies. If you want change you have to work for it. You have to put yourself out there so people realize that at least one person thinks that voting is important, that at least one person thinks that our values are important. And if more than one person comes out to canvass then people really begin to get the message that the election is important and that people's votes do count.
More on the flip:
For those of you who are shy, pack the shyness and come out anyway. Nobody will expect you to "perform" or "give a speech" or "make points". The scripts we use are really simple. They change as the campaign progresses. Right now we are just locating people and making sure the rolls are accurate and getting some preliminary information about where people stand. Later the questions become more pointed to will you volunteer etc. Sometimes we just phone people and scripts are very handy and I've learned to make them my own, rather than just sounding canned.
I make mistakes, but if you all will be at my back and help with this, those mistakes will not be a problem in the long run.
I am in KC and I want to see KC folks stepping up to the plate. But I also want to see people all over stepping up and moving out and changing this world one campaign at a time.
What are you waiting for?