Nearing Celebrity?

Today this guy came up to me in the campaign office and said he wanted to meet me. Turns out he was on the internet, looking up the address and phone number of our office. When he did a search, he saw my blog listed on several hits down the page, and clicked on it out of curiosity. He said that it was reading my blog that put him over the edge to come in and volunteer! Wow! Now my readership must be a total of 13! And like all the volunteers that get cycled through Sheila, Ash (that’s his name) said he was stopping in to sign up for another day, but ended up “just doing a few calls.” I’m guessing at least an hour or two later……we locked him and his girlfriend in for a canvassing shift tomorrow, as he was leaving.

In all seriousness though, we are starting to learn that all this work is paying off. We are seeing volunteers coming in to make calls who come in as a result of the recruitment calls we make. Plus people who come in because someone came and canvassed their door. And after leaving a voicemail or two with someone, a bunch of them call us back. Yesterday Dan had a guy who came in to volunteer because he said we had left him so many messages he figured that he really better just come in and volunteer after all. Of course, on the other hand, yesterday I had an angry volunteer read me the riot act because she called a few people to recruit them to volunteer, who were already regular volunteers. Ooops. Admittedly, we do have a glitch in our system, which is that some people who are already scheduled to volunteer with us, are getting cycled back into the volunteer recruitment call pool. Today I even crossed my own name off a volunteer’s call list, which I happened to notice as I was training her. But at the end of the day, the worst that can happen is that they get annoyed. Most of them still volunteer and they’ll all still vote- at least this way they won’t forget!