Posted by Melodi on November 30th, 2008 | Categorized as 2008 Presidential Election, Obama Campaign, President-elect Barack Obama, Reno for Obama, Senator Barack Obama, Senator Joe Biden, Swing State Travel, Vice-President-elect Joe Biden | Tagged as 2008, aurora, barack, battleground, canvas, canvass, co, Colorado, community, election, get out the vote, gotv, obama, vote, voters
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 [...]
Posted by Melodi on November 30th, 2008 | Categorized as 2008 Presidential Election, Internet Campaign, Obama Campaign, President-elect Barack Obama, Reno for Obama, Senator Barack Obama, Senator Joe Biden, Swing State Travel, Vice-President-elect Joe Biden | Tagged as 2008, aurora, battleground, biden, co, Colorado, denver, election, northern california, obama, organizers, travel
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 [...]
Posted by Melodi on November 9th, 2008 | Categorized as 2008 Presidential Election, Action, Obama Campaign, Senator Barack Obama, Swing State Travel | Tagged as 2008, aurora, battleground, canvas, canvass, Colorado, democrat, election, organized
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 [...]
