How many hours/wk did you volunteer for Kerry/Edwards during October?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: How many hours/wk did you volunteer for Kerry/Edwards during October?

Not speaking a word of judgment, reproach or criticism except to myself. Some people will say that we lost because of gay rights, some will say abortion, some will say guns. They're wrong. With slightly more justice, some might say taxes. I say it was all my fault. I actually deluded myself that farting around on the Internet was somehow helping. If we lost (and I appreciate that with all the Republican voter fraud, this is open to question), it's my fault.

How about you? Go ahead and define "volunteering" as loosely as you like. For instance, if you were paid, go ahead and include those hours for the purposes of this poll. If you want, feel free to include DUing, blogging or other Internet activity. I can accept that others' experiences/ interpretations may be different than mine.

[Mend]

1. We Tried But

1. four hurricanes in 6 weeks...a lot of clean-up
2. spouse had triple by-pass open-heart surgery in September....was recovering strength, although back before Clinton even though twenty years older.
3. litter of puppies pooing and peeing everywhere
4. full-time practice

we gave about ten hours, wanted to do more, sorry.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Oh heavens, you have nothing to apologize for. All sympathies

and I hope your spouse is feeling much better.

[wlubin]

2. I was a poll watcher in Broward county on Nov 2nd.

[Cheswick2.0]

3. about 12 hours a day

and yes I was paid...but not very much. It was definately a labor of hate against bush.

[deadparrot]

4. 2 hours per week...

Phone banking.

[redsoxliberal]

6. 80 hours of volunteering... hundreds online.

[Bossy Monkey]

12. Good gracious! I hope that's total rather than per week!

If the latter, you're awesome and I hope you're getting some rest. (Actually, ditto if the former, too.):toast:

[leftchick]

7. 2

much of my time... :(

[gennifer6]

8. don't be apologetic...it ALL mattered

I was working at my local campaign office (NE Ohio) and a guy came in who had questions about info sent to him on being a poll monitor, something wasn't matching up on the paperwork...he was talking to our campaign manager when a busload of 100 people from New York came in to do phone banking and she had to ditch him to get them all in the door. I was in the other room with another volunteer getting phones and scripts for these phone bankers and realized we'd almost run out of bottled water for them. He heard me say something to another office worker and offered to go to the grocery store and buy water. I told him "No, thanks", thought it would be too much to ask, especially since he had to wait to get his questions answered. But he left and came back in about 15 minutes with 20 CASES of water in his van. We were a bit humbled to say the least, thanked him profusely and he DID get his questions answered. I'll never forget the guy.....
the little things often matter most....don't think "an hour here" and "an hour there" went unnoticed.

[roseBudd]

9. My favorite story is as I was driving my car plastered with Kerry yard

signs and VOTE NOV 2 and BUSH GOTTA GO in white shoe polish on my car windows with Eminem's Mosh blasting, four very young African American kids ran out into the street to flag me down and they asked me to take them to volunteer. I took them to Young Voter Alliance.

[gennifer6]

10. nice.....

its finally sunk in to so many.....

[Pirate Smile]

13. People just desperately wanted to do something to help make this

happen.

[gennifer6]

11. Despite the loss, it was one of the better experiences of my life.....

[Bossy Monkey]

14. So proud of all of you. Give yourselves a hand n/t

[autorank]

15. Poll watcher, door hanger, GOTV, sign poster, support kid to do same

I'd do it again and I will in 2006.

SCREW * AND HIS LACKEYS. THEY'RE GOING BYE BYE

Corporate America controls the media and we get manufactured news.
Corporate America now controls the voting machines and we get manufactured elections.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Still curious. Also wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you

again. So proud of all of you.