Here's a short, inspirational story for my fellow canvassers.
Last Sunday was the final day of canvassing in Indiana, the next month is now GOTV. As I was going through my walk list on Sunday, I knocked on the door of a very nice woman who I'd peg as being in her mid 30s.
I asked her if she was planning on voting for Joe Donnelly. She said that she just moved to Indiana about a month ago from Michigan and had gotten done registering to vote a few days prior, and really needed to do research before deciding who to vote for.
We sat down on a bench outside her house and I asked her what issues were most important to her. She told me that she needed someone who is willing to work across the aisle and not just be a Republican yes man for Donald Trump or a Democratic yes man is they were to win back the House/Senate, and the next important issue to her was healthcare.
I gave her a Donnelly pamphlet and she leafed through it as we talked, with her stopping and pointing out things she liked in it. I told her how as a red-state Democrat, Donnelly has to cross party lines to get work done, because if he wasn't willing to, he never would have been a senator here in the first place and I gave her a few examples of him doing such. As far as health care, I told her about Donnelly's passion to protect pre-existing conditions and Braun's negligence about the issue.
She asked me why I decided to canvass, and I told her it was because I wanted to make a difference, but I know I can't do that from my couch, so I better get on my feet and get to work. She told me to keep at it, and that she's only heard from the Donnelly campaign, not the Braun campaign.
I thanked her for her time, and she told me:
"I have a little more research to do, but I think you just got Joe Donnelly another voter in November."
If she's the only vote I helped get this fall, heck. I did my job.
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