Check in here with your favorite memory of working to get Obama elected.

[peace13]

Mine was the fine people who came from out of state to stay in our home and help Ohio become the beautiful blue state that it is today. Every person who stayed with us came with what we knew was one thing in common, the desire to get Obama in the WH. Each person was different and each was wonderful in the desire to get this nation back on course.

There was door knocking and phone calling...but the people were the best. It's good to remember that solutions to our problems can be on the way if we continue to work like dogs to make it happen.

[davidwparker]

1. wearing my Obama t-shirts here in (formally) red Virginia

[polichick]

2. It was seeing the combination of hope and determination in supporters eyes.

[NYC_SKP]

3. A phonebanking conversation with a mom in Indiana

who had two kids in Iraq and another leaving soon. I think our conversation was moving for both of us.

Also some other calls with elderly voters who were voting Dem for the first time ever. One was a widow, the other was a woman speaking for herself and husband, both in their nineties.

:patriot:

[Solon]

4. Hanging out by the Obama table on Election Day, handing out stickers cookies, soda and milk...

with other Obama supporters. It was fun! :)

Also, defending Obama against unfair attacks on him during that farce of a controversy called the Wright controversy, both here on DU and IRL. Still think that whole issue was bullshit.

[BeFree]

5. An old black man

Standing there staring at our storefront. I was inside and spotted him looking at the big Obama letters on the window. I went out side and approached him. He said he couldn't believe what he was seeing. His eyes watered as did mine, like they are now.

We talked a while and he said he never thought he'd see the day when a black man had a chance to be the president.

We parted, and he looked back as he walked away, shaking his head with disbelief.

July 4, 2008.

[Indiana_Dem]

9. I love this story! It brings tears to my eyes!

The most touching door-knocking I did was when I knocked on two separate occasions on two different black friends' doors from high school.

I briefly dated one of them in high school back in the 80s. I knocked on his family's door in the primaries. He and his sister and his brother from California...and his mother all answered the door at the same time together. They met me and another volunteer all decked out in our Obama shirts and buttons! We asked if we could count on their support for Obama in the primaries. He said "you can count on 5 votes from this household!" He had such a grin. They all looked so very happy!

The second one was a brother of a guy I was bf/gf with at 11 years old. He knew me. I asked if he had or was going to vote in the general election the next week. I told him I REALLY wanted Indiana to win for Obama and we really needed his vote. I told him I was afraid we couldn't do it. He gave me such a confident laugh and told me, "Honey, Obama's got it in the bag-he's going to win, don't worry about it--I voted, you're damn right I voted already! We (family) all have!" I left his house feeling a little more confident and had the strength to go on the rest of the day knocking on yet more doors.

There are so many experiences I could share. I could write a book. We canvassed every Wednesday and Sunday for months. The last 4 days before election day I went from sun-up to sun-down non-stop.I have many stories to tell!

[BeFree]

10. good stories

Another of mine.

In the office one day, a white older man and I were talking, he said he had never wanted to vote before but felt this time he had to. He asked if Obama was going to win.

I looked him dead in the eye and said: Yes, he will. I am sure of it, because people like you are coming out from all over to vote for the first time.

[Indiana_Dem]

11. That reminds me of another one...

I registered this older lady. She said she hadn't voted since Kennedy. I am a precint person and I always get an absentee ballot for her husband but she never wanted to vote because she was afraid to use the computerized machines. This year she came out and asked me for a registration! I did so and then also gave her an absentee ballot. I came to pick it up later and she left it in her door and wrote a note thanking me so much for encouraging her to vote. She had said earlier that Obama reminded her of a Kennedy and really wanted him to win.

I know her daughter and her daughter told me she was SO excited when Obama won! She told her daughter she was so glad she felt a part of it after so many years of not voting!

[marylanddem]

6. Canvassing in Virginia with my lesbian daughter - because we

both believed, deeply, that Obama was about enlightenment and change and creating a better world. Lately I'm not quite so sure.

[Botany]

7. It was a very cold night in S.W. Iowa ...... late November 2007

we had been running QA/QC all day on our models about getting
turn out for the caucuses and a cold rain had started to hit the
Roof Inn in Council Bluffs where I was staying when I heard
a knock on my door. Much to my surprise there was a young
professor who had taken some time off from her job at the University
of Iowa and she had some linguine & white clam sauce, some salad and a
bottle of "Blue Moon" Riesling .......




Or maybe turning Ohio Blue and knowing the our Sec. of State Jennifer Brunner was going to
run a clean election and count the votes.


:rofl:

[demnan]

8. In my precinct, I went to an apartment where

a lovely older couple from perhaps Syria or Lebananon or Palestine had just moved in. The couple were able to vote. The husband was walking with a cane. Just as I knocked on the door their son came in and facilitated any issues we had communicating. They weren't registered to vote so I gave them the paperwork and told them what they needed to do to register. They were very appreciative.

The day before election day I was back in this complex in my precinct. The couple were walking and I talked to them. They greeted me warmly as a friend. They had registered to vote and assured me of their choice.

I was so glad I could help them participate in the process. And the enthusiasm and trust of their children gives me hope in a better future for our country and relationships with all.

[peace13]

12. Thank you for checking in.

It was great to hear your stories! Peace, Kim