A quick way to volunteer from home

FYI, here’s something quick and easy we can do to help out in swing states for the election.

 

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Hi there,

I've been trying to figure out the most important thing I can do for this election cycle and decided that taking action is swing states is the most important. 

Oregon and Washington are more likely to vote Kerry than Pennsylvania or Iowa, so I would like to concentrate on these really iffy states.  The John Kerry team made that easy by setting up a website where I can recruit people to volunteer there.  They have databases of people who contributed money to the campaign and said they were interested in volunteering.  Many of these people don't know who to call or what they can do. 

On the website, I can get a script (pretty much the same script for all the calls) and a list of five phone numbers for potential volunteers in swing states.  I call them and mark off on a web form whether they will volunteer and for what or if I left a message.  Only one of the ~70 people I called was upset that I called.  I only get about 1 person per hour to volunteer for the particular thing I'm asking about, but I get them thinking about volunteering and often volunteering for other things. 

I wasn't sure how effective the phone corp is, but a recent email from the Kerry campaign said that over 60% of the volunteers coming out for canvasses and phone banks in some states said they were there because of a phone call from the phone corps.

If you have a few spare weekend minutes on your cell phone or a cheap long distance plan, it's something you can do to really mobilize a grass roots effort to swing this election.

Go to http://calls.johnkerry.com and start going.

-Heather