Barack the Vote: PA 2007
October 16th 2007
By Josh Uretsky
This weekend marked the beginning of Philadelphia for Obama's Get Out
the Vote project for this year's State and Local election on
November 6th. Even though Barack Obama is not on that ballot, and
won't be until April 22nd we believe that we need to be spending our
time and energy helping get Democrats to the polls for this Fall's
elections. To that end, the grassroots team for Barack Obama here in
Pennsylvania has decided to push getting our volunteers to
participate in Get Out the Vote activities statewide and help out
with local candidates they like in the run up to this coming general
election.
Here in Philly, we started out by preparing a Get Out the Vote flyer for
distribution during a national canvassing day for Barack Obama.
Asking the people we canvassed to remember to vote on November 6th
certainly made the canvassing very enjoyable for me. Most people
really appreciate it when you ask them to vote, even if they have
already told you that they won't support your preferred candidate for
president. We are planning to call all of our supporters in the
greater Philadelphia area in part to ask them to volunteer in the
run up to election day.
Obama supporters statewide are doing a variety of efforts to help out
the candidates on ballot this November. We are asking our volunteers
and supporters to help out in the local races now, either by
volunteering for those campaigns or by asking voters to "Barack the
Vote" between now and election. We are heading out to County Fairs
and to Democratic County Dinners around the state to contribute what
we can and give our support. We are working the the campaigns for
2007 to see how we can improve their turnout and find out where we
can best help out.
I know that it isn't usually the done thing to ask volunteers for one
candidate to head out and help in an election where your candidate
isn't running, but we think it is the right thing to do. There is a
lot to do between now and the end of primary season, but now a year
ahead of the Presidential general election, we are doing what we can
to help Democrats get elected in our city, county and state.
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