First and Last Official Obama Volunteer Report.
Posted by
Mel Profit (aka Mel Profit)
Nov 3 '08, 19:24
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I showed up to the new phone back downtown...in this gutted commercial space. There were several hundred volunteers, rows and rows of phones, catered food, highly organized operations...almost machine like, a huge cross section of demographics.
I called Penn and then Florida.
The people in Penn were slightly miffed at getting, what I think was, yet another call.
The people in Florida, I could reach, were down right fed the fuck up. I had one one basically read my script back to me.
"Yes. I will be voting.
Yes, I know where my polling station is.
No, I don't need a ride to the polls.
No, I don't have any other questions."
I ended the conversation with a laugh and assured her that it would all be over tomorrow. I don't how annoying people helps but I'm sure people smarter than me figured it out.
The people of Florida have some messed up phone systems btw. About half don't have VM, it just rang and rang. Alot of them had voicemail boxes full up. Alot of them were disconnected. And given the older demo I spent alot of time screaming into the phone. It was just weird.
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