Adventures in phone banking - PLEASE READ!

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5. Yeah, we went around a neighborhood.

It was fun because we were in a group of three women. One kept notes, and the other two of us talked. I was lucky to be in a group with a very local woman who was running for reelection to a local council position, and it happened to be near her neighborhood. She pointed out to many of them that the reason they had a nice newly paved street was because she had agitated for it, personally, in that job a few years earlier. She actually won a few votes for her own race as well as thumbs-up for Hillary.

We talked with lots of people and even got a couple of women (one lived across town and was visiting the other one) who asked about volunteering for Hillary. We also met a number of young men, obviously Millennials, who were very sweet and friendly and told us "I'll be voting for her in November!" A signal, I suspect, that they were going with Bernie in the primary. But there was NO nastiness from ANY of them. Maybe because we appeared, and behaved, like we were completely harmless. Which we were! We were instructed not to get into arguments or confrontations, but always to be well-mannered and courteous and nice, and to avoid tying anybody up at their door in long conversations. We would leave flyers when somebody wasn't home, and offer them when people seemed amenable to them.