I could not just sit by and watch this election happen and hate myself if it turned out differently because I hadn’t done anything. So I took half the day off work and drove to Philadelphia to help get out the vote.
The Obama office was loud, hot, and bursting with people. Rather than making phone calls or knocking on doors, I found myself a position standing on a street corner in bustling center city holding a sign at a table filled with quickly-disappearing Obama paraphernalia and voting information. It was pretty amazing how people just kept coming to the table to pick up stuff: buttons, bumper stickers, posters.
It wasn’t the most significant role I could have played, but it was something, and that was enough. I stayed up until 12:30am to watch Obama’s victory speech, even though I had to get up at 7:15am in the morning…
Hooray!!!
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