I have to go to bed so this is going to be short.
I'm in Great Barrington, MA, a town that went 82% for Obama that is surrounded by towns that went over 70% for Obama.
We are in the Southwest corner of Mass and there is no Coakley anything here. No lawn signs, no bumper stickers, no visibility events, no canvassing. I can't even find out if people are giving rides to the polls on Tuesday.
The closest town that the Coakley campaign has a presence in is Springfield, 55 miles away. That won't work for me.
These people in these towns (plus many others) who voted for Barack Obama are not being canvassed:
3055 in Great Barrington
2296 in Lenox
15,626 in Pittsfield
2190 in Lee
1375 in Sheffield
993 in Stockbridge
655 in Egremont
671 in Becket
If this race comes down to the wire, and a few hundred or thousand votes make the difference, the extra votes we could snag in these towns could be the ones to make the difference.
I don't want to take the COakley campaign's advice to make calls.
I am HERE. And from what the girl in Coakley HQ told me, I'm not the only one begging to get canvass info for Pittsfield and surrounding areas.
Rather than simply bitch, I turn to the Kos community for help.
I went to FL for a month and took my Jewish, gay ass all over St. Lucie county knocking on doors and giving rides and getting people in polling places to turn off the Fox News. I am not afraid of knocking on doors. I want to do it.
What I don't want to do is waste my time and effort knocking on random doors, hoping to find likely Dem voters to inspire/beg/thank.
Is there a way I (and others like me) can spend productive days tomorrow and Tuesday canvassing for those badly needed extra votes? OR must I (we) just forget about knocking on doors here in Western MA and just make calls like people in CA and NY or stand in the freezing rain and snow in supermarket parking lots with homemade Coakley signs, praying that my (our) presence will make a difference?
I'm kicking myself for not getting involved earlier, and I want to make these last hours count as much as possible.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
(calling would be so much warmer and dryer and easier, butI want us to win more than I want to be comfortable.)