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One neighbour at a time

Submitted July 10, 2008 - 1:27 pm by Karen Desmond

I read an AP story yesterday (one of those "Most Popular" ones on Yahoo!) about Obama, Clinton, and Caroline Kennedy flying together to NY.  The last sentence of the article was this:

"Obama spent the majority of the day in his Senate office and on Capitol Hill for a series of votes, including on a bill overhauling rules on secret government eavesdropping. He did leave for one private meeting in a local hotel. "

I think this probably just about sums up the level that the general public is paying attention to this issue, if at all.  So we move on.

And thanks for encouraging the call to real, effective action.  I'm in Vermont, and I'll be going to the weekly phone banks that are starting this weekend - they even have a campaign staffer here in Vermont! Isn't that amazing!

I also read yesterday that the campaign staff in Missouri is being tripled to 150 paid staff (McCain has about 10-15 I think).  And, in Nevada I read there are 500,000 new democrats registered this year (putting their registered numbers above the Repubs).

Finally, there's a great program on the BO site now, and if it's operating in your state yet, you should join.  It's called neighbor to neighbor and you sign up for it and they assign you 20 people in your neighbourhood to talk to, and you do it on your own schedule, and then when you've talked to them you check them off your list.  I know it's already launched in VA, so go to this page and put in your address to see if it's in your area.

http://my.barackobama.com/modules/votercontact/login_signup.php

KD

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