Anybody Else Have Just Stupid Logistics For Canvassing This Weekend?

[we can do it]

I have done a lot of canvassing since 2004 and this year its been really poorly thought out - driving 20 minutes to staging when I have a loacation 5 minutes away - to being sent 30 minutes to the othe side of town passing by 3 other staging locations (all which are closer to my house)

fyi - i agreed to go over there thinking i would be hitting low income neighborhoods - and was sent out to an upper-class neighborhood wtf are they thinking?

[dragonlady]

1. I have to wonder about the methods being used

The plan seems to be finding all the people on the Obama supporter lists from last time and asking them to vote. This is probably a good way to go in the swing and red areas. However, in the heavily Democratic areas, I would go door to door and speak to everybody. Especially in poor and minority neighborhoods, people have unsettled lives. A large percentage have probably moved since 2008. They have day-to-day problems and could use the extra encouragement to go and vote. And people who couldn't vote last time (for example, teenagers turning 18) are a great source of Democratic votes. Just today while doing the prescribed canvass we put some leftover lit at the nonidentified doors in between. We encountered a man who said he couldn't vote because he was a felon. But it turned out he was "off paper" (completed supervision) and in Wisconsin he can vote. We told him how to register at the polls tomorrow, and I think he will. You have to at least look for those people if you expect to find them.

[we can do it]

2. We Had All Dems On Our List -

But they had us driving 12 miles to the other side of town - past at least 2 other staging offices. Makes NO SENSE at all.

[we can do it]

3. I Found People the Week Before (Poor Neighborhod) Really Needed Encouragement

they really appreciated the sample ballots and that they have not been forgotten. Also - they seemed to think we had no chance of winning from all the hate spread on the TV - and the propaganda polls as well. I think it is vital we contact everyone - especially those who who have been targeted by the hate.