Volunteer Learnin

1)The first time I volunteered I canvassed in HiddenBrook with Mae and Rob. We spent a good 5 hours going from house to house asking the residents if theyll be voting, who theyll be voting for and if they needed a ride to the polls. Most of the people we talked to said they would be voting for Obama, and that they didnt need a ride to the polls. A few people said they were going McCain, but a majority of people either werent home or didnt answer the door.

2)The next time I volunteered was two days before election day. We went to a different staging site (after a long time driving around trying to find it), and they had had so many volunteers that there was hardly anything left to do. We spent about an hour walking around Reston putting reminders on people's door knobs to vote in two days, then went back to the staging site.

3)The next day we went back to the same staging site, and this time we went almost to Great Falls to put up more doorknob reminders. It took two hours to do the same amount of houses it took us the previous day because the houses were so far apart. So we finished that up and headed back to the staging site.

I thought that it was interesting that there were actually more Obama signs up at the big Great Falls houses than in HiddenBrook, as you would expect more wealthy and therefore Republican residents there. I had fun.