This may explain your calls from MoveOn.(Best of the Web)
Great Moments in Democracy
"Funkybutt," a New Orleans-based contributor to the left-wing hate site DemocraticUnderground.org, has an inspiring tale of democratic participation at a MoveOn.org voter registration party (quoting verbatim):
The croud was great. One woman had her John Kerry shirt on and the whole group seemed to be Kerry supporters. I know that moveon is not affiliated with any party so I found that to be a relief after at the F-911 party I was approached by a writer who had written and article in "Workers Democracy" about how the working class CAN'T count on the Democrats. We discussed teaming up with other groups (LouisianaForKerry, KerryRoots.com, ect) in future efforts that may be more effective locally.
I was dissappointed with this party because:
a. i thought i would be calling a list of local people. (I think we could have done a lot better if our list was of unregisterred New Orleanians) Instead, we were phoning people in Florida which I agree is very important.
b. Almost none of us had ANY success signing up a voter. The list seemed pretty bad. Most of the numbers were wrong numbers and sometime it was someone who claimed to already be registerred to vote (which I suspected was a lie in SOME cases)
c. several people I spoke with said they didn't "WANT" to vote. I couldn't convince them how important it was.
*One Bite* I called about 50 people and I only had one bite. The guy had a VERY strong french accent. He was mildy rude but when he heard I was working to defeat Bush he became interested. I began signing him up but while getting his address, because of the language barrier, I had to ask him to repeat himself many times. He got irritated with my inability to understand him and hung up on me!
Uhhh, don't you have to sign your registration card?