A bunch of my friends got together on Saturday to drink beer, eat snax and call people in Oregon, New Mexico, Ohio and California on behalf of the Obama campaign, fo' free. I was really nervous at first, but then I got into it. (Honestly, the beer did help - does that make me Joe Six Pack?)All the cliches are true - it felt incredibly empowering to engage in the political process and actually do something (besides protest and get illegally sent to jail - see Coco circa 1991), and I got to talk to some nice people on both sides of the political fence. (A few of my friends got some incredibly mean and racist people - that was a little depressing in this day and age.)
All in all, it was a great experience, and it was cool to think that across the country, other people who cared a bunch were doing the exact same thing. (Except in Ohio, where they were watching the Buckeyes game.)
So make some calls. It's not as scary or as hard as you think.
And check out this video my friend Paul made in Wasilla, Alaska.
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