Service Hourse - Blog #1

Last Saturday, I decided to go canvassing for the Obama campaign. To be frank, I would have rather called people or sealed envelopes, but canvassing was okay. Our group was given a list of people that had voted Democratic in the past election, so the fear of encountering a hardcore Republican that would shoot me was eased a bit (I think their might have been a few Republicans on the list).On the paper, people’s addresses, household voters, ages, and gender were all listed in addition to their views on Barack Obama and a couple other things. I’ve never been canvassing before so I was kind of nervous, but I knew the people couldn’t be as bad as some really rude people I meet at Target. So I went door-to-door, but only one or two people on each street would even bother to answer the door or they just politely shut the door, so it wasn’t too bad.