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I went down this afternoon to an ACT training for doing GOTV on Tuesday. I'm trying to do my small part locally -- but I was awed and somewhat abashed by the intensity of the people who are really carrying the effort along.
One woman doing the training said she and her husband had both taken a month off from work to come down to Pennsylvania to do this. Another said she'd been working until 2 am every night for weeks.
They said that volunteers had just been pouring in. The phone would ring at 1 am and it would be someone saying, "Gee, I just saw your website and I want to help. And what are you doing there at this hour -- I thought I'd just leave a message on your machine."
They have 1800 volunteers for election day in Bucks County alone and 18,000 for all of Pennsylvania -- more than any other state. And that's just ACT and the groups it's working with, like Planned Parenthood. It doesn't include anyone who might be working for MoveOn or for the Kerry campaign directly.
I'm going to be driving four people who are assigned to cover a small area of one of the nearby towns, walking through it three times and knocking on the door of every likely Kerry voter on each pass to make sure they get out to vote. This is unbelievable to me -- when I was a little kid, get out the vote meant my dad going through our apartment building once before the election, and that was all. The magnitude of this operation totally stonkers my imagination.
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