Jay, Jill and I would stop at the Aurora office, pick up our walk packets and review them over coffee at Starbucks. We’d decide to split packets even/odd, separate sheets out of packets and hit individual streets, or to take one walk packet per canvasser. It always depends on the shape of the streets and [...]

Jill and I got into Denver airport the afternoon of Halloween 2008. We stopped for a smoke, a beer and the best spinach and artichoke dip in the whole, wide world. Cheers! We’re in the battleground.

We went back to the Denver airport later to pick up Jay, our Northern California Out-of-State Travel Director. (We’re formally [...]

Jane and I worked in Aurora, CO today, just south of Denver, CO (10 mins.). We received a well-prepared and organized walk packet, considered large, from very professional staff. We assumed we could tackle a large packet and did. We knocked it out of the park: 134 knocks, 30 contacts, and verified new residents (not [...]

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my law-enforcement officers. Imagine my glee as I headed to the breakfast area of our hotel (in my pajamas) to find 20-ish of the Treasury Department’s officers eating their breakfast. We’d see them later at the security check-in point.

Jane and I headed to the park, following [...]

Must… make… it… to… Tuesday… [gasp]
Okay, I’m tired, but we’ll make it to the election! We had our final day working as a call center ourselves [remember we need you to go to either the Palo Alto or San Jose offices on Monday and Tuesday!], and again the numbers surpassed anything we’ve done to date!
This [...]

Can you believe McCain said that… and the look on his face when he said it.
Geez, we’re only a bunch of nice people having a Party…
What’s that you say? He was referring to Obama that way? Wow… what a… um… not a nice guy.
I guess when one realizes one has just turned into the debate [...]