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Tuesday Morning

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Tuesday is the day that we had been working towards all week and a half. We woke up before the crack of dawn around 5 AM. We drove all the way to Hopkinton High School which was a polling location that Pete was planning to visit at 7 AM. I’m so glad we were able to make it because I was able to get a selfie with him and he brought us donuts!   Next, we went to Dunkin Donuts and on our way out of town we spotted this cute, covered bridge. JSM wanted to take a picture so we pulled over. While trying to take the picture a nice gentleman pulled over to offer to take the picture for us. I asked him if he was planning on voting and he said “yes”. When I asked who he was voting for he told me he was undecided. So, I told him a little about Pete and I got his phone number and sent him videos of Pete speaking from the rally the night before in Nashua. After getting to the Manchester office we got to work on the phones calling to see if people had a plan for getting...
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Thursday

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Thursday, we went to St. Anselm college for a tour. It had snowed so much the night before that we had a snow ball fight on our way into the college. Then we went to our Pete office and were assigned our turf for canvassing. I had such a great experience! A lot of Pete supporters in this area. The thing about canvassing is that you are walking for hours in the freezing cold, up and down hills. Maybe one in five houses answer the door, if that. Of the people that answered the door, the majority of them were undecided or had Pete in their top two choices. When you meet an undecided voter, it is up to you to persuade them onto #teampete. Every time that I went out canvassing, I found that I got better and better at talking to people. I have to admit that it was way out of my comfort zone to be the one to start a conversation. Now I feel like a pro. This trip has made me a much more outgoing person. After canvassing we went to the Manchester office to make phone calls for the remain...
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Sunday Continued...

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