CHARLOTTE, N.C. – It’s certainly been a long day here. After an eventful early morning, we arrived at the Obama campaign office in Ayrsley. From there the teams were assigned a “turf” where they would be going door to door.

We started the day off with
Matt Ingoglia, CD communications director, and Lex Ratner. The objective of going door to door was to target democratic or undecided voters in the hope that they would vote for Obama and senate candidate Key Hagan. They also informed residents about early voting options.

One person they came across was Linda Flynn, a retired teacher. She plans on voting for Obama and Hagan, but said she was leaning toward Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCroy. Ms. Flynn’s daughter was a
Republican councilperson in New Jersey. “I think it’s nice to have both sides,” she said.

In the afternoon we joined up with freshmen Lilyb Olson and Isra Elmadhi. They felt well received by the community and even received an invitation to a birthday party.

We also had the opportunity to meet Andre and Donna Demeter, Obama volunteers who helped drive the CDs back and forth to their turfs.

“So much for young people not caring about anything,” said Donna Demeter of the visiting students. And Andre Demeter said that witnessing the
outpouring of support from young people for Obama gave him a lump in his throat.

Tomorrow the CDs hit the streets once more to try to seal the deal for Obama in this battleground state with 15 electoral votes.