Yesterday my wife and I went down to Erie, Pennsylvania, along with her parents and 3 other friends, and we campaigned for Obama.
We were given lists of Obama supporters and went door to door reminding them to vote, telling them where their polling places were, what they needed to bring, etc. Between my wife and I, we knocked on a couple hundred doors, and talked to dozens of people. We only got two McCain supporters (both hers) and one racist (mine).* I talked to one old lady who was angry that the person that called her from the Obama campaign was a black girl, so she hung up on her. Then she got even more angry when she mistakenly got a letter in the mail saying "thanks for your $150 pledge". She said it made her not want to vote, but I talked her down from the ledge (hopefully).
My wife's parents did run in to some McCain campaigners, but nothing interesting happened.
The Rochester paper had an article today about some other supporters who also went down to Pennsylvania and Ohio. Of course, as Yglesias notes, the only reason we had to go down to Pennsylvania to find people who's Presidential votes mattered is because of our screwy electoral system.
My thought as we were driving back was, after all this talk about change, what will his brand be in 2012? My guess is something like "steadiness," or "I am not a total airhead like my challenger." If Palin runs in 2012, would we have a sequel to Larry Flynt's Nailin Paylin?
*Apparently plenty of racists are supporting Obama for President over McCain.
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