I feel it my duty to report this every chance I get.
This is what happend to me yesterday (Saturday).
I live in a sKerry state. :^{ (Maryland)
I am a Republican and for the first time in my life, I volunteered (free of charge! Take THAT you paid sKerry volunteers!!) to help my party.
Six Republicans (self included) went door to door in two local towns to GOTV of our fellow Republicans and here's how that experience shook out for me:
We were in groups of 3 teams of two people and given a list of adresses of registered Republicans to contact.
Homes I visited: 77
Of those homes about 60 people were home.
There is a high turnover of residents in this area so some on the list no longer live there or were renting to others.
ALL of the Republicans contacted are going to or have already voted for President Bush!! Only ONE Republican was undecieded!
We came across SEVEN democrats now living where Republican once did, and of those, FOUR were going to vote for President Bush!! ONE even wanted to know how to get a B/C 04 yard sign!!! I got goose bumps! Almost cried! (well not really).
From what it looked like to me, is the dems have taken this state for granted. The looks on the faces of the democrats we did encounter that were voting for sKerry was priceless!!
Can you imagine being a dem and having a Republican show up at your door step asking you to vote for Bush!?!
To get to my point, Take Heart and don't believe the POLLS!! I know of no Republican voting for sKerry. I now know of at least SEVEN dems who are voting for Bush/Cheney!! And this is in a sKerry State!!!!
What I can NEVER understand is, why is it the President's fault if the job market SUCKS in Ohio? And, what's is he or she supposed to do about it?
Were you canvassing in a primarily Republican precinct?
Sounds like you did a great job in Maryland !
I went door to door in Philadelphia with a bunch of people from NYC yesterday and am going back today. To my shock, there were a bunch of college kids from NYU who came down by bus to volunteer for Bush.
I only had one undecided Republican ( a World War II vet), but I think he was going to vote for Kerry. His wife was for Bush. I got yelled at twice by Dems ( high turnover in the neighborhood where we were too). But some of the Republicans we met had gone to see Bush speak last week in PA and were pumped.
2) I've heard rumblings through the grapevine (nothing official) that MD may well be closer than folks expect. [fingers crossed]