I love canvassing; I really do. But sometimes it just takes a little too much out of you. That seemed to be the case this past weekend when we went to canvass for Larry Kissell.
It shouldn't have been bad. I emailed the guy a week in advance, touched base, sent him another email Wednesday letting him know how many people we had and asking if he had a specific area he wanted us to cover. His district is a good ways away, we definitely didn't want to spend the entire trip in the car simply trying to get down there. I stated this in my emails, asking if there were any turfs closer to our district (literally anywhere up US-49 would have saved us half an hour each way). Then: nothing. Not a word until Sunday. freaking. morning. Then I get an email simply asking to meet at the field office. In Concord.
I don't want to be mad at the entire campaign; nor am I rooting against Representative Kissell. But his campaign was definitely not one I would have been willing to work with if I had known ahead of time exactly what a hassle it would be. We were only able to canvass for about an hour, yet spent almost four in the car. It was ridiculous.
Rough start to the week; but it's all downhill from here. The rest of the canvasses are really close, with local candidates that should be able to put in a lot of time working with us. Can't wait for that.
So, until then. Phonebank, phonebank, phonebank. Registration, registration, registration. Then Deb McManus next Sunday. Fired up!...
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