Show of hands. Who here brought in votes this cycle for Dem Candidates? I'm proud of you!

[herding cats]

I've worked, but I wish I could have done more right now. I tried so hard this cycle and the response has been good, but I worry. That's who I am.

You? Did you do the good work? If not there's still time, I can hook you up with a way to make calls and still make a difference if that's your thing.

We need to accept, just our vote isn't enough. It's great, but amazing is reached when we get others to the polls. I don't care it it's a friend who might not have voted or if you're phone banking (which could mean texting for those who don't like speaking to strangers!) we need to expand our voting base everyplace.

This one is on us, so if you didn't add a voter don't complain. Tuesday is our deadline.

Our democracy is at stake.

Use it or lose it. That's where we are.

[sakabatou]

1. Pretty much everyone in my area is Dem, so I don't see the reason

That and I'm terrible with cold calls.

[herding cats]

2. I don't call in my area beyond specific campaigns I work on.

I've been working Georgia and then Pennsylvania for the party.

You can text, too. They have options.

[Ms. Toad]

3. Voter turnout is even more critical in Dem areas.

When we get complacent - because everyone is a Dem anyway - we lose. Turnout is critical.

For the next cycle, there are lots of things you can do to help out which aren't cold calls.

* Postcards (there are several campaigns - I participate in Postcards to Swing States)
* Texting
* Voter protection for early voting and election day voting
* Ballot cure (this is closer to cold-calls, but you would be calling people who already voted, but were forced to cast a provisional ballot. Some of these people need to return to prove something (name change, address change, etc.) before their vote will be counted. These are the low hanging fruit of cold calls - since they save a vote already cast.)

[herding cats]

4. This right here!

Thank you. This is excellent.

[Ms. Toad]

5. 500 handwritten postcards to North Carolina voters

(First time or previous likely Democratic voters)

Early voting poll observer - 3 days
Boiler room - 1 day
Election day - either observer in a critical precinct or boiler room for about 15 hours.

[herding cats]

7. I appreciate you to the bottom of my heart.

I wasn't involved in letter writing this year (but I received them and appreciate it) but I know it's a valuable outreach!

Thank you!

[LeftInTX]

6. I knocked on 550 doors in the last 2 weeks! I live in suburban San Antonio where it's pretty hilly

Whenever I blockwalk, I'm always glad that I do not have a manual transmission. Car would roll backward LOL

Homes are on cul de sacs etc...
I wish I lived inner city, but it is what it is.

[herding cats]

8. You're my hero!

Thank you from the bottom of my Texas heart. 💙

I truly mean that.

[LeftInTX]

9. Thank You!

[Genki Hikari]

11. Stone Oak or NW (especially Vance Jackson)?

One of my stuporvisors at the USPS got mad at me for not coming to work when the freeways (and the access roads) were all closed from ice on them, and my only possible way out of where I lived was Vance Jackson. North of Callaghan. He didn't get why I wasn't willing to get on that road at night, because he lived out by Cibolo or some other flat land dystopia.

Fast forward a few years, when we'd both worked other parts of the city. We were back to working together again, shooting the usual, how/where've you beens. That's when he apologized to me for giving me grief about not taking VJ during an ice storm. Apparently, he had to use it for something related to work (must have been working at Lockhill), and he got an eye-opener about how different some of the terrain was north of 410.

"It's like a roller coaster up there, and that's just during the day when you can see. I had no idea one street could be so scary, never mind trying to drive it at night. With ice on the roads!"

"Yeah, next time listen to me when I'm telling you it's too dangerous to be on a road like that."

After a while, I knew VJ like I knew the back of my hand, because I used it for back-road access to get certain places south of me and was in no mood for the freeway. But when you don't know that road, it's crazy to drive with its higher hills, and, hey, let's put a curve at the bottom of this hill, too! First time I drove it at night, I was scared to death.

Don't know about now, but back then it also had a bunch of woodsy areas with trees to crash into if you weren't careful. And of course, all the places at the bottom of hills that flood anytime it rains (Orsinger, DREAMLAND). You don't even have to watch the evening news about heavy rain in SA to know what you'll be seeing/hearing: Helicopters having to rescue the idiots who think that they could drive on Dreamland (always Dreamland!) when it rained. Nope. No can do.

We were looking at places out at Stone Oak (wilderness oaks road?). Same thing with the hills and curves and even some trees. If an ice storm hit up there, I wouldn't get on those roads at night for love or money.

[LeftInTX]

12. I'm out Bandera near 1604.

However, my friend is outside 1604, just east of Helotes. She walked it...Oh boy...

I have a friend who is in Cross Mountain....Some homes are like a mile apart. She can't block walk. She drives to every home.

Actually I drive to most homes myself, unless they're next door to each other.

[bottomofthehill]

10. My wife and daughter are the hero's in our house.

The three of us did a weekend of canvassing for the Spanberger Campaign in Fredericksburg, but my wife and daughter spent an additional two weekends in Norfolk with the Luria campaign

[Sympthsical]

13. I wrangled a bunch of college students

It wasn't easy. See your user name for details.