Volunteer Post #2

Tonight I went back to the Loudon Regional Victory Headquarters for McCain/Palin 2008 to volunteer for another two hours. There were so many people making phone calls tonight!! A group of about twenty or thirty Republican volunteers came in after a long day of going door-to-door to reach more voters. I was amazed how young some of them were. There was a little boy sitting next to me that was literally about eleven years old making phone calls. I really doubt that any undecided voters will decide to support McCain because a child asks them to.

While last week I called undecided voters in Loudon, today I was calling people from Winchester. They were so much ruder for some reason. One woman just yelled “EXCUSE ME!” into the phone and then hung up. Another man asked me if I had any idea what time it was and I said “It’s 8:38” and he screamed at me that it was way too late to be calling and hung up. No one forced him to answer the phone! I had to keep repeating my lines to one guy that was really hard of hearing and at the end of all of my trouble he shouted, “I will never tell you who I am voting for!!!” Some people are insane!

Another observation that I made tonight is that nearly all of the Obama voters that I spoke to had terrible English. One man said, “Nah man, this is an Obama house. Go Obama!” Another man said, “NO! We no vote for McCain!” I also noticed that the people in charge do very little to help the campaign. I understand that they are there much longer than the rest of us but they could be doing so much more be making calls than just talking to each other in the back.

One cool thing that happened to me tonight is that I saw my eighth grade English teacher Mrs. Waggoner there volunteering. She was really excited to see me and I was so much taller than her now! Overall, it was pretty fun (when I wasn’t being yelled at!)