I am scared out of my mind about Kerry in Ohio [View All]

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Today I spent the day canvasing for Americans Coming Together in the Slavic Village section of Cleveland. Despite it's name this is a largely African American area of Cleveland. Admittedly this is a very small sample that I dealt with. But it was totally chosen at random from within the ward. Everyone hated Bush, but virtually no one really liked Kerry. The people that I talked to will, if they vote, vote for Kerry. It is the if they vote part which is the problem. To win Ohio, Kerry will have to replicate Gore's showing in Cleveland with it's high turnout. I really hope I had a bad batch here. I really really do.

I know that we have several months to go. But so far this is down right frightening. These canvasings won't help much with drumming up support for Kerry due to us not being permitted to pitch him. He will need to have his own workers for that.

I know many of you will take this as the ramblings of a Dean supporter. But before you start yelling at me, you should know that I spent from 9am to 5pm either driving to the rally for ACT (around 1 hour each way), at the rally for ACT, canvassing in the Slavic Village area, or driving home. This canvassing only helped Kerry and Fingerhut to the extent that it would help anyone for whom I can vote. In short, I almost certainly did as much for Kerry today as anyone who will respond to this post. Kerry needs to fix this it is as simple as that.