On Saturday afternoon I went out to do voter registration, or "voter reg" as the kids call it,* at the McDougald Terrace public housing community. From a results point of view the event was kind of a dud: hardly anyone got any registrations. I walked around with a group of three people, and we only got one among all three of us. I learned later that this was the second or third time this neighborhood had been canvassed, so no wonder everyone was already registered. (Or they said they were, which is the same thing for our purposes.)
On the bright side I got to meet two of the Organizing Fellows. They're young, college age I would guess. I guess that makes sense: college students are most likely to be free for six weeks of volunteering in another state during the summer. They're near the end of their six weeks here, but one of them told me she's going to come back to Durham in September. She's really nice, I hope she does come back.
I took a packet of blank forms and I think in the future I'm going to go out on my own in Hillsborough instead of these organized efforts in Durham. It seems like there's a lower concentration of volunteers in Hillsborough so it might be a little easier to reach unregistered people who haven't been hit up already. I'm in Hillsborough anyway twice a week for Stoneline, and it would be pretty easy to do after work. I was thinking about doing it tomorrow, but then I saw the weather forecast. Maybe not.
*I also learned that the kids call my.barackobama.com "MyBo." It rhymes with Taebo. I guess that's better than calling it "My B-O."
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