Ready
South Dade Business Center, Miami, Florida, 4:28 a.m.:
In a few minutes, our team is going to start walking into this office. At 6:00, they'll be heading out to our four different staging locations across our territory. At 6:30, we are each going to be standing in front of volunteer poll watchers, training them, and exhorting them to give it their all today. At 7:00, those poll watchers will be arriving at their precincts while the first canvass volunteers arrive and get their walk lists and pep talks from us. As the morning wears on, we're going to be checking off their canvasses, house by house, and reporting numbers to headquarters. The pollwatchers will be reporting turnout, and we'll be moving our canvassers around Randolph Heights, Perrine, Fairway Heights, Howard, and all our other neighborhoods to shore up any weak spots they detect. By 3pm, we'll have shifted to blanket canvassing, with our volunteers running through every street and tagging every door we see. By 5pm, even the out-of-state volunteers and the Obama for America staffers will have left their posts and poured into the neighborhoods in search of that one determinitive vote. When the polls close, there will be hours of work yet to do. The canvassers will move to the precincts, adding precious manpower to help keep voters in line. As the lines gradually wind down, and precincts close for the night, their poll watchers will shift to the remaining precincts until finally, the last voter has voted.
I was tallying one of the six thousand volunteer calls we turned out of our little storage locker in the South Dade Business Center yesterday, and I saw a note written by the line for a 96-year old female voter. It said "Already voted. Too ill to volunteer in office, but making calls from home." A lot of people have shed a lot of blood, and a lot of sweat, and a lot of tears to bring us some few hours from electing Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States of America. In the words of the midnight regional conference call, let's go win this fucking thing.
In a few minutes, our team is going to start walking into this office. At 6:00, they'll be heading out to our four different staging locations across our territory. At 6:30, we are each going to be standing in front of volunteer poll watchers, training them, and exhorting them to give it their all today. At 7:00, those poll watchers will be arriving at their precincts while the first canvass volunteers arrive and get their walk lists and pep talks from us. As the morning wears on, we're going to be checking off their canvasses, house by house, and reporting numbers to headquarters. The pollwatchers will be reporting turnout, and we'll be moving our canvassers around Randolph Heights, Perrine, Fairway Heights, Howard, and all our other neighborhoods to shore up any weak spots they detect. By 3pm, we'll have shifted to blanket canvassing, with our volunteers running through every street and tagging every door we see. By 5pm, even the out-of-state volunteers and the Obama for America staffers will have left their posts and poured into the neighborhoods in search of that one determinitive vote. When the polls close, there will be hours of work yet to do. The canvassers will move to the precincts, adding precious manpower to help keep voters in line. As the lines gradually wind down, and precincts close for the night, their poll watchers will shift to the remaining precincts until finally, the last voter has voted.
I was tallying one of the six thousand volunteer calls we turned out of our little storage locker in the South Dade Business Center yesterday, and I saw a note written by the line for a 96-year old female voter. It said "Already voted. Too ill to volunteer in office, but making calls from home." A lot of people have shed a lot of blood, and a lot of sweat, and a lot of tears to bring us some few hours from electing Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States of America. In the words of the midnight regional conference call, let's go win this fucking thing.
Thank you and the other volunteers for working so tirelessly to make sure the people get out and vote.
ARE YOU DEAD?! WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME?!?!?!?!
p.s. your camera really sucks, man.