Phone banking w/ Muscogee Democratic Coordinated Campaign today brought all the emotions up for me. Frustration, anger, excitement, hilarity.
Best hits: talking to an older woman who felt that “we have to pray for whoever gets in the chair so that they’ll help the poor”, talking to an African woman who angrily lambasted the Democratic Party’s response to voter suppression and the minimum wage as “lousy”, and talking to an older Tea Party supporter from Atlanta area who fears Obama bringing in the “illegals”/not standing up to Islam/not supporting the Pipeline out west/being a socialist unlike the past Democrats/dividing the races after Ferguson/not being a real Christian.
That last call took 45 minutes. I rebutted each and every single one of her points, but it ended amicably (I was running out of time). She was *really* fearful of a lot of things. I would’ve went longer.
