A Lefty Writes

Today after the usual afternoon of phoning seniors, I had the pleasure of heading out of the office for a few hours and going to a nearby fireworks show to handout flyers and talk up my candidate. I have to admit that it was definitely great to get out of the office and meet people face to face without knocking on their doors. It certainly feels less invasive to hand out a flyer than to phone someone or visit them at home.

There were also volunteers there representing some of the other key primary candidates, which was a bit bizarre. The main part of this race is going to be the primary and there are 4 serious democratic candidates. Of those four, I could easily see myself working for two of them (the other two are a bit too conservative for my taste), but at the same time we're all still democrats and more or less on the same side. However, while at this event working in the same area as these other campaigns, I found myself seeing them as the enemy. I was still quite polite, of course, and spent a few minutes speaking to the other campaigns, but I still felt very competitive around them and extremely loyal to my candidate. So to summarize, primaries are weird, because you're pitted against people that you really don't disagree with all that much.

Even though I didn't get home tonight until nearly midnight, today was really an awesome day and definitely left me feeling charged for this campaign.