I volunteered for the first time ever tonight. Here in AZ, my wife, myself, and 2 friends [View All]

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of ours showed up at the office (which was OVERWHELMED with volunteers) at around 3PM. One very enthusiastic woman (who apparently has worked some 70 hours a week to help elect Democrats throughout Arizona since August) said that in the 20 some years she's been doing this, she has NEVER seen anything CLOSE to this many volunteers to help GOTV. Her first election was in '88 for Dukakis. It may have been overdue for me, but I was happy to finally get out and do something to help.

The majority of the people there were signed up to make calls, so my wife, myself and our friends offered to canvass (my wife and I were both raised as Jehovah's Witnesses, which we VERY much are NOT now, but I guess this lent some familiarity for the whole "door to door" routine. Although this pretty much terrified me, my wife was able to talk me down and we did fine).

We ended up being the celebrities of the office when we came back with two ballots that a wonderful Democratic couple left in our care to take back and put in the ballot box (the husband had canvassed in Pasadena, CA at age 15 for one John F. Kennedy!). Apparently we were carrying the first ballots to be placed in the box at this particular office. We got our pictures taken and everything. Talk about being made to feel welcomed and encouraged!

We'll be back Tuesday morning (as we've already early-voted here) to help the final GOTV push. I have a feeling we are going to SHOCK the nation here in Arizona Tuesday. TURN IT BLUE, BABY! GOBAMA!!! :)