This is the real grass roots juice!! The thing that makes you go in 90 plus degrees to talk to unknown people about Obama for President. In Raeford NC, one of the small rural counties, (NC has 100 counties); Lisa the Obama organizer and myself began knocking on doors.
Most of the residents in the area we hit today were spanish speaking, but Liz, who speaks spanish was able to communicate with them to see if they were citizens. None of them were.
We changed areas slightly and hit what I felt was the grand prize. I knocked on the door of an elderly couple. Introduced myself and asked if everyone in the house was a registered voter. At first she said oh yeah (she was an older lady) then she turned and yelled at her husband.
"You are always complaining about Bush, You need to register to vote so you can vote for Obama!" I was surprised as she opened the door waving me in. There on the couch sat an elderly man who appears to have had a stroke. Tentatively, I told him I could register him right then, he looked at me and said ok.
As we filled out the form I noticed they were watching the news about Obama and Biden. His wife was talking about how she was getting disgusted with the whole contest (McCain' tactics)and would be glad when the elections were over. Her husband signed the voters registration card, he was 76 years old!!!!
The Mrs asked me if her husband would be able to vote in November? "Yes Mam" I told her, She said "good, it was about time."
This is why we are the ones we have been waiting for, 76 years old and registering to vote, to vote for Obama!! It's hard for me to fathom what he has been doing all this time, but it is what it is.
We were out for 2.5 hours and registered 4 new voters. Most of the people that could vote were already registered. We left information for local candidates as well as Obama.