Obama MA’08: Howdy, neighbors!

Last night I phonebanked out of Harvard Law School, and by sheer coincidence the group was covering Ward 4-1 — my neighborhood. After spending a week in South Carolina campaigning for Obama, it was refreshing (and fun!) to call around to my own neighbors. (People are also less likely to hang up on you right away when you tell them you live around the corner). At one point I realized, about 15 seconds into my spiel, that I’d called the woman next door, whom I’d convinced to put up an Obama sign the day before. We had a good chuckle, and I went back to connecting with all the other folks I can now call “neighbor.”