Reply #66: What a wonderful thread!

[Schmendrick54]

Hello Lauren,

I think you raise an important issue, and it seems to me that you have already received some useful feedback. I hope mine will be useful, too.

It seems as though you share my reticence about canvassing. I, too, would much rather write a letter than go door-to-door, but I have to admit that when I overcame my fear and did it I found it to be a pretty positive experience.

One of the things I like about the Dean campaign is the encouragement I get to try out new ideas and share what works via the blog or meetups. The downside is the people at Galactic Headquarters are not always readily available to answer your questions, but there seems to always be hundreds of volunteers (like you and I) monitoring the blog and ready to come up with suggestions on how to do things.

One other observation I would like to share is that I did a quick tally of all of the replies to this thread just before I posted this, and I counted

2 - Warnings that you would be attacked by Deanies;

5 - Replies that were from Deanies and very complimentary;

and 0 (that's zero, nada) - Posts which were attacks by Deanies.

I am not suggesting that such a thing does not exist, just noting some anecdotal data.

Thanks again for your post.

Regards,
Schmendrick