Canvassing in Pennsylvania

Yesterday I spent the day in Harrisburg Pennsylvania walking door to door in a Get Out The Vote effort for Barack Obama. I took two of my friends from work with me. None of us had ever done anything like that before, and it was awesome! We really felt like a part of something. We met some Obama supporters, some of which were just as excited as we were, and then we "met" some McCain supporters who treated us pretty badly actually. I got yelled at by a mother in front of her 12 year old daugher - "I'm so upset, I'm not voting at all!" - well, isn't that a great message to send.

In the end, we knocked on 204 doors, talked with 50 people, 40 of which were Obama supporters. There were Republican volunteers walking around too, the only way I knew was there were bags saying, "Vote Republican" on the door. My friend took them off the doors. :-) I didn't have courage to do that, but he said, "we're at war!"

After the long day, we drove back to Maryland feeling satisfied in doing something little to make a change.

By the way, last night I saw the movie, the Secret Life of Bees. I had read the book a long time ago, and that was probably a good thing, but I will say, that this was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. You know I am a sentimental and cheesy person, but it was a very moving movie with lots of layers. I highly recommend it!