At this festively political season of the year, no place of residence is safe from the multi-front attack by canvassers, enthusiasts, and volunteers. As we speak, there is a small delegation from the local Obama camp, whose office is adjacent to my place of employment, wandering around the neighborhood. For a solitary moment, they stopped outside of my building. I was planning my defense. I was comfortably situated on my couch, a plate of breakfast on my lap and curlers in my hair. I figured that I could just avoid answering the door, but the fact they could easily see right into my front window would have probably encouraged them to up their efforts to get me up to listen to their practiced schpeal about their chosen candidate.
I must extend warm thanks to my next door neighbors. In their patriotic desire to support Barack Obama, they acquired a sign from the aforementioned office and placed it right in front of the house. Upon first glance, the building looks like a one-family home rather than a modified three-apartment structure. The canvassers took one look at the sign, figured the people inside were already collective Obama supporters and therefore, speaking to them wouldn't accomplish their goal of convincing people to vote for their candidate. They moved on to another, less fortunate set of individuals.
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I was recently visiting New Jersey, where I used to live, and some friends of mine live in this cute little house on this fairly prominent street in town. They are very pro-Obama and have all sorts of signs draped across their house in various fashion. Really and truly, every window on the front of the house has a sign and there are at least 10 windows. This does not include the non-window sections of the house that display their signs. Anyway, they were telling me that many people have stopped by their house, assuming that it was the Democratic headquarters in Princeton, wanting to know if they could get a lawn sign or button or what have you. In the end, they decided it was just easier for them to order this political paraphernalia and become a mini-headquarters instead of directing the traffic to the other end of town. Funny, right?
Canvassers have hit my building in northern Virginia just about every weekend for two months and you can't walk down the street w/o getting harassed.
I told them I'd already voted for the Chosen One but then they wanted me to volunteer. Um, I'm not a democrat, I said. Do you have a minute for me to speak to you about illegal immigration and the two-party duopoly?
It's true that if a person puts the sign in their window of the party they support, no one will bother them.
hmmm. i wonder if a similar strategy could be used to discourage those of the religious persuasion from knocking on my door?
I think the campaigners for Obama have become a religious persuasion in their own right! I've watched so much about your election on the TV (not by choice) and I'm astounded at the idolizing of this guy as some kind of messiah. Did you notice in his acceptance speech (yeah, we even had that broadcast at us)the "yes we can" 'congregational response' that was used several times? I can't imagine Hilary doing that.
Maybe I should put a sign on my front lawn that says I'm a Jehovah's Witness so those bastards will stop knocking on my door every Saturday morning at 10:30.
Uh oh, I made calls on behalf of an unnamed presidential candidate, and I had a few people hang up on me and tell them to leave them alone. Sorry, in advance for any harm I caused as a volunteer. :(
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