Obama reaches out to Deaf Community

[AllentownJake]

Dialing number after number, Martha Eisenhour sat at a single table working her way through a phone list of unreachable people that most campaigns might have abandoned.

But Eisenhour understands what most people don't - that sometimes there are people on the other end of that line.

The numbers - which give a pattern of electronic beeps and clicks - typically are discarded as faxes or computer modems. However, some connect to the homes and lives of people in the deaf community who communicate with a special text telephone called TTY.

http://fultonsun.com/articles/2008/10/02/news/090news01.txt

This campaign is truly amazing. We value everyone's vote and really do reach out to everyone.

[Hope And Change]

1. K & R!

[vaberella]

2. He did?! Now I'm a complete and utter fan girl .... I LOVE YOU OBAMA!!

My entire family donates and support the League for the Hard of Hearing in NYC. My sister was a volunteer for them for years.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. Thanks!

[wildeyed]

4. Yes We Can!

:kick:

[Muttocracy]

5. That's great! Loved this part:

"Obama campaign regional press secretary Melissa Nitti thinks this is the reflection of the type of campaign they are running and how that's different than the McCain campaign.

“It's a bottom-up approach that starts at the grassroots,” Nitti said. “That's why we listen to our volunteers who - in this case - came up with the idea to bring the TTY machine in and reaching out to this group of people.

“This is a reflection of how hard we work to listen to community members, to get their opinions and their ideas about who we need to be reaching and how to reach them.”"