Posted on 08/12/2008 1:43:36 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
If you're an undecided Minnesota voter, expect a volunteer for Barack Obama's campaign to knock on your door — probably early and often.
The Obama campaign in Minnesota today announced what its leaders described as the largest volunteer effort ever in the state to identify voters' candidate preferences, persuade the undecided to support the Democratic presidential candidate and turn them out to vote.
An estimated one in five voters is undecided, and the Obama campaign will come calling "as many times as it takes to move them," Jeff Blodgett, Obama's Minnesota campaign director, said during a conference call with reporters. "It will be definitely multiple conversations at the door."
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Question: When the Obama volunteers knock, do they demand reparations for slavery at the beginning or at the end of visit?
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That'll annoy the snot out of people.
If we can just convince them that robo-dialing is a good idea also, they will alienate just about everybody.
I deliberately never vote for a candidate who had me called by a machine.
O please o please come to my house.
I honestly signed my dog up to volunteer for Obama in Minnesota. He has gotten 3 calls so far from the Obama campaign looking for him to volunteer or donate. When they call I tell them he is sleeping on the couch but is all excited about helping Obama so I will go wake him up. Then I tell him to speak.....so he goes Woof Woof. Too much fun.
Ha ha, that ought to bring them to their senses.
The more this POS opens his mouth, the better the other
choice looks.
Minnesotans are very, very, very nice people. They’re dumb. They voted twice against Reagan, but dumb or not, they are very nice. Therefore, they are harassment-proof. They will say yes to the 0bama volunteers. The volunteers will be happy and won’t come back a second time, hence no harassment.
How I wish the ‘volunteers’ would come around here. How I’d love to tell them a thing or two- or three.
Guess Tx ain’t on the list.
I have a baseball bat standing just to the left of the door jam, so I can give these people the proper “greeting”.
LOL!
I would counsel you against it. They’re vindictive. Your property will be vandalized. Just go along with them. They’ll be thrilled with their success and you’ll have the last laugh on the 11.05.08 because here, in the land of 10,000 lakes and flakes, they’ll be openly crying on street corners, their tears freezing on their cheeks.
Like Obama hasn’t already annoyed people enough.
If anyone is intimidated to vote for or against a candidate by these roving agents, the tactic should be reported to the FEC as it violates Federal election law.
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Don't click on this, then!
My older daughter, who has not voted in a presidential election due to her age, is getting TONS of stuff from Obama’s campaign, and 2 visits from campaign supporters. I wish McCain was making the same effort.
You don’t understand the tactic on knock and drag.
They are identifying the Obama voters (and undecided voters who they will work over will several visits prior to election day).
On election day, they will canvas the neighborhoods with vans to drive people to the polls. They will knock on your door (if you are in the “Obama” column) and ask you if you voted. If not, you may be asked why not. They will then make several more stops on election day. Sometimes these are big guys who come around. Felons cannot vote in some states but they can still work for a campaign get out the vote effort. You might want to think up a good excuse the third time they come knocking on election day to ask why you still haven’t voted.
And yes there are Republicans in some neighborhoods who’ve suffered vandalism and illegal posting of campaign signs when they didn’t sign on for the Democrat. I think I recall a case from a couple of years ago in North Houston where they accidently drove over the home owner’s dog after they began arguing.
I was a Bush-Cheney volunteer in ‘04. Spent a lot of time in the office in St Paul.
I was out and about on Eklection Day ‘04, taking voters to the polls.
I got to see the Kerry/Democrat effort in the inner cities. They were a fairly well-oiled machine. They had groups of volunteers going up and down streets, doing everything possible to get people out to the polls. They seemed to put a lot of work into wringing votes out of poor/minority-oriented precincts.
They were absolutely determined to squeeze every possible vote out of the 4th and 5th congressional districts, namely St Paul, Minneapolis and the first-ring suburbs. They needed that to offset Bush-Cheney’s strength in the outer suburbs and rural Minnesota.
It worked.
If the McCain campaign works as hard as getting the vote out in the suburbs, he has a chance at winning Minnesota.
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