Monday, November 3, 2008

GOTV day 3





For the last three days we've been helping with the get out the vote campaign.  Volunteers were directed to our house to get packets to go out and knock on doors to remind people to vote.  If they had a Stevens sign they just let them be.  The campaign was really focussed more on getting out the vote for the local elections.  In Alaska the US senate seat and house seat is open.  Today was the best turn out so far we had 19 precincts in our house district covered.  One gentleman, George was our favorite volunteer.  He came out each day and usually covered one in the morning, and then came back for another precinct in the afternoon.  With the dwindling hours of day light available (especially now with day light savings time), and the cold weather (today it snowed a few inches) all the volunteers have been really great.  We even had a few high school students who had the choice of volunteering for three hours on a campaign or writing a "really long paper."  

I hope everyone has already has already, or is planning on voting tomorrow!  I absolutely can't wait for to watch the returns.  I'm skipping swimming so we can watch the results.  

2 comments:

molly said...

Happy Election Day, E and N! Fingers are crossed!!

Sarah said...

Good job helping our man win!!!!!