I canvassed 2 precincts today.

[NEDem]

I was out canvassing for a congressional candidate, the first one I did had a large retirement community, maybe 200 old folks, they had both nursing home and assisted living. I didn't go into the nursing home building but worked the assisted living part. I'm telling you I've never seen so many pissed off old people. The seniors are freaking mad as hell. Kerry signs in 2/3 of the windows, I got offered cookies, brownies, soda, coffee, you name it. They all absolutely hate Bush. I heard more Hitler references in my 45 minutes in that precinct than I've ever read here.

By the time I left them, I'd forgotten all about my blisters and sore back and moved on to my second precinct. Nothing special about that one, just tons of official and homemade Kerry signs.

If its like this in Nebraska, all I have to say is...LANDSLIDE KERRY!!

[madmax]

1. Good work.

I hope the youngin's will pick up the slack when the old timers cash in their voter registration cards.

You're working harder than bush and not even complaining ;)

:kick:

[cubsfan forever]

2. Thank you!

It shows that the current trends in America are NOT what the corporate news skanks would like us to believe. It's a "finger on the pulse of America" kind of thing.

Professor 2

[graywarrior]

3. Nice work. I know how hard that is.

I just did 2 days worth of Kerry canvassing.

[diamond14]

4. good work...if all of us just do a 'little bit' RIGHT NOW...we will WIN

thank you for your effort to SAVE AMERICA....

I've seen the same Senior stuff here in Virginia...SENIORS are wearing Kerry buttons in the Grocery Stores....if you ask them about their buttons, they are MAD at bush*...real MAD....IMO, the missing Flu Shots really sealed the deal for them....many Seniors will DIE this winter, because of bush* incompentence...and they KNOW it....

[Kipepeo]

5. That's awsome

Thanks for sharing!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. Twice this week I transported elderly people to early voting...

For the most part they too were not for Bush. Seems they are a tad miffed about their Medicare benefits, SS and the prescription drug plan for Medicare. It shocked me. In my County almost every one is republican and so were ALL the people I took to the polls. Two of the ladies I took had on K/E t-shirts!

[madmax]

7. K/E t- shirts! Rock on Granny! n/t

[happynewyear]

8. yep the seniors are pissed alright!

Thanks for your work. I knew the senior citizens were pissed off. * is trying to steal what little they have left. Medicare is going up 17% and the benefits have taken a hit besides. The RX benefit is a total complete joke.

Remember, these people REMEMBER Hitler - they recognize this characteristic. I believe they are truly horrifed and disgusted to say the very least.

:kick:

[NEDem]

9. Yeah, this one guy I talked to said he

fought in WW2, And felt like he did back then. I guess I figured they'd be with *, but I was totaly shocked at the reaction.

Nice part is that they really like our congressional candidate so Nov 2 may be a GREAT night.

[fujiyama]

10. Nebraska! That's one of his strongest states!

Wow...Good job!

BTW, did you think of goin to IA instead? That might be even more useful since it's so close.

Either way, you're doing a hell of a job. Are you also canvassing for a local dem congressman?

[NEDem]

11. Thought about it, but

I think I can do more helping a congressional candidate here at home than I could anywhere else. Tip O'Neill once said, "All politics is local."

I'm canvassing for Matt Connealy, he's running to fill an open seat. I've been very surprised at the amount of support I'm hearing from people. No doors slammed in my face yet.

[fujiyama]

12. Sounds good!

Taking back congress is just as important. The quote fits perfectly.

Good luck!

[missouri dem]

13. We are going to take all of our country back, one state at a time.

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/49/powerlines-meyerson.p ...

ORLANDO, Florida — I have seen the present, and it works — I think.
I have spent the past week observing the official Democratic Party and
unofficial 527 field operations in the battleground states of Ohio and
Florida. And I have found something I’ve never before seen in my 36 or
so
years as a progressive activist and later as a journalist: an
effective, fully
functioning American left.

Those liberal organizations that already knew how to do politics — the
AFL-CIO, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) and a few others — are
doing it better than they have before. Those liberal groups that stayed
aloof
from elections or phumphered ineffectually are now playing the game
like
seasoned pros. New organizations have arisen to mobilize sometime
voters; the
largest of them — America Coming Together (ACT) — will have 12,000
staffers in each of the three biggest battleground states
(Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Florida) on Election Day.

The AFL-CIO inaugurated this program in three states last year — not
coincidentally, Florida, Ohio and Missouri. The goal was to open a line
of
communication with the nonunion white working class, and by the
evidence of
the AFL-CIO’s numbers and my Garfield Heights walk, the goal has been
reached and then some. The three Ohio canvass operations have recruited
541,000 members — a clear majority of whom support John Kerry,
according to
the federation’s polls. In Garfield Heights, fully half the persons
listed
on the SEIU’s walk sheets were Working America members (the other half
were
either regular union members or retirees). Though it was just
midafternoon, a
number of working-age men were home. Asked what issue mattered to them
most,
they said jobs; asked their candidate preference, they said Kerry. Take
Ohio’s unemployment rate, add the activities of ACT, Working America
and
other such groups, and you understand why this is one Bush-2000 state
that
won’t be Bush-2004.

[NoPasaran]

14. Thank you

Thank you especially for working in your own state. Yes, electing John Kerry is important, but so are races in states in national party has written off. We'll never be able to turn this country around without support in all states, and we'll never get that support without running and electing our candidates.

[David Zephyr]

15. Thank You.

:thumbsup: