Dear Obama Campaign, please stop calling!

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 12:20 PM PDT

2008/10/05 · 12:20

Dear Obama Campaign,

I began donating to your campaign in February of 2007, and volunteering in April of the same year. I was one of the first people in Northern Nevada to volunteer for the campaign, and I made the 70 mile roundtrip trip to Reno 3 times a week for three months until my community got organized. I was the precinct captain of my precinct leading up to the primary. I canvassed in 100+ degree heat in July, and in freezing snow in December. I met at a nearby restaurant most Wednesdays for phonebanking for almost a year. I've donated several hundred dollars that I don't have to the campaign. I volunteered to work at three Barack events, and one Michelle event. I was one of ten people that your campaign selected to have a private meeting with Barack before one of those events. I also attended a small precinct captain event with Barack where I met him in the hallway and he signed my book. At the caucuses I was elected to be a delegate for Barack in one of the few precincts he won in my city. I was later elected at the county convention to be a delegate at the state convention. I attended the state convention and cast my vote for Barack.

My point here is that I am clearly committed to this campaign. Surely, your campaign must know most of these things? Yet I am getting phone calls 3 - 4 times a week, and canvassers have now knocked on my door two days in a row. I have informed the campaign several times through organizers and your online surveys that I will be voting for Barack, and I will be doing it during early voting.

The only reason that I am not phonebanking and canvassing right now is because I am working and going to school and simply do not have the time. Every spare minute I have is spent studying, doing homework, or slaving in an open lab preparing for a test. I've tried to make up for my lack of participation by donating money, and talking to any undecided classmates and co-workers about Barack on a regular basis. I've explained this to my local organizer and have even asked if I could be involved in setting up something on campus because I am there more than I am home.

Calling me, knocking on my door, sending me mailers, is truely a waste of your time and money. Please, please focus your resources on people who actually need to be persuaded. Every call one of your volunteers makes to me is one less call they can make to an undecided voter. Every minute that one of your volunteers stands at my door is a minute they could have been using to persuade one of my neighbors.

So please, I'm begging you, stop calling. It's nothing personal, I just think you could be using your resources much better. Plus I really hate getting interupted when I am studying.

Sincerely,
Someone who really, truely, honestly is going to vote for Barack at 8am on October 18th.

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