Super Saturday

So Super Saturday has come and gone, and surprisingly enough, two volunteers showed up at the office this morning to do some doorknocking, so we gladly took them in.

There ended up being an odd number of us, so I spent most of the morning and early afternoon putting together additional materials. The good news is that the Shop Steward promised to get the bulk of work that we couldn't finish today done before the primary and bring in some good folks that would help. So we wanted to be sure they had enough materials for everything, so I spent most of the day putting it together. Turns out we were a bit off in our numbers, so making packets of materials took forever.

But soon, I was on the road, hitting some members at their homes. The picture above was a sign that was on one of our member's yards. It was fabulous. I loaded them up with some good Kerry/Edwards gear and went on my way.

I went to trailer homes, nice homes, townhouses, and shacks today. Definitely an interesting demographic out here. Everyone was really nice, though, so that was a nice thing to see.

After I finished up the map, I headed back to the office to do some phone banking and already our efforts paid off - more than half of the folks I talked to had received their materials and planned to take a look at them if they hadn't already. At least three of them said it made a difference in swaying their vote and about six said they were interested in future volunteer opportunities. So not a bad day at all, I would say.

Tomorrow morning, it's back to Seattle for a day of touring around the city with Jess and Megan (my supervisor and another member of the support staff whom I'm sure I'll talk about in much more detail in the coming posts - I heart the team we've got out here).

Tonight, I have to add in another picture to my usual one picture per post. When I wrote an email to my book club to tell them that I was being shipped to Seattle, I mistakenly typed that I might possibly be in "Tahoma" instead of "Tacoma." Well, I got a good ribbing from our former Washington State resident, Vivian, on the snafu. So I'm driving around Yakima today, hitting our member list and what do I come across?

A member who lived on Tahoma Ave. So they did send me to Tahoma, after all. Hahahahahahaha, I'm getting the last laugh now...