I do not like making phone calls. I do not like meeting new people. I don't like bothering strangers. I take rejection personally.
I am not a natural canvasser.
Ian, my friend, knows this. But he also knows how to motivate me. When he called to ask me to canvass New Hampshire with him for a day he said, "I don't really want to do it either, but if John McCain wins the Presidency and there was something I could have done about it, and I didn't, I don't think I could live with myself." Ian is originally from New Hampshire--he now lives in NYC. I am much, much closer.
There is no way to get out of this and also save face.
So that's how I found myself in Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday, standing among a group of 40 strangers and listening to a young woman give me my marching orders. She is the Field Organizer for Obama's Portsmouth office, and she knows exactly what she needs from us.
Portsmouth, NH, Field Office
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