COLORADO!!! - day three

We couldn't have chosen a better time to come out to Colorado.  Not only is the "Get Out the Vote" weekend extremely important, but the weather has been absolutely wonderful.  Since we got here the temperature during the day has been between 70 and 80.

Anyway, on to our day.  Since we were going door to door in a new area we didn't have to get into the office until 11:00.  That, plus the extra hour we gained from the time change, gave us time in the morning to be tourists.  EB took us to a place in Golden called Dinosaur Ridge. Here there are actual fossilized dinosaur footprints on the side of a mountain.   It was pretty impressive.

  

After that we were off to Idaho Springs for our first door to door experience.  It is a very cute small town about 20 minutes outside of Golden.  We had some fun taking a couple of pictures before we got down to business.

At first we were a little frustrated with going door to door because the addresses in this area made no sense whatsoever.  They were all over the place and did not follow any logical order. After a little time we were able to find most of the places that were on our list.  Many of the people were not home (which is very typical) - but those who were home were almost all Obama supporters!  It was really uplifting to see after we had been told that this town was considered a conservative area.

Most of the Obama supporters had not yet voted and were happy to receive information about their polling place and the times that it would be open.  We spoke to one person who is a McCain supporter and his wife is an Obama supporter.  His wife's name was on our list, but he was extremely friendly and happy to talk to us.  He even said that he was bummed out that no McCain supporters had been coming door to door in that area.  It just goes to show that the Obama campaign is really well organized and there is no area of Colorado that is considered too small to send people out to.

Even though we didn't speak to a large amount of people, it still felt like we were being useful.  Giving people information about their polling place, answering any questions they may have, and stressing the importance of their vote gets them one step closer to actually showing up to the polls on election day.  I have confidence that at least a few of the Obama supporters that we spoke to today will actually make their way out to the polls now that they have the information they need.

Once were were done canvasing we came back to the Golden campaign office and put together some Obama/Biden lawn signs to give out.  This worked out well since most of the Obama signs in the neighborhood we are staying in were stolen the night before.  We made sure to take a bunch of the signs that we put together to replace the stolen ones.

One of my favorite things about the Golden office is that they have big posters on the walls of the bathroom where people can write why they are supporting Obama.  It is interesting and inspiring to look at.  There are so many different people who support Obama for so many different reasons.  Here is a shot of just part of one of the posters:

Tomorrow we will be going door to door in Georgetown, a town close to Idaho Springs that is even smaller.  It will be fun to check out the town and talk to people in another new area!

Only two more days until the election...