more phone banking

[redbird]

This round of phone banking went better in the sense that I spent less time on Zoom being trained, and that the zooming was less stressy, I think because there were only three other people, so easier both to follow and to ask a question when I needed to.

I'm less sure about the results. We were calling Maine again, and mostly I got a lot of voicemails (and didn't leave messages). One call I think was successful, in that the person said yes, she was going to vote for Sarah Gideon, Joe Biden, and the rest of the Democratic ticket--but after so many unsuccessful calls, I forgot we were supposed to encourage people to vote by mail. Also one Trump supporter, a couple of people who cut me off quickly, and some wrong numbers and people who told me to take them off our list, which I said I would, and marked the appropriate box.

During the debriefing, I told the organizer I don't much like zoom, and would try to make calls on my own/at other times. I asked her to send me email if the script changes significantly. (These calls were for Maine.)

Then I had a bowl of ice cream, to reward myself for having done the thing. (I don't need a specific reason to have ice cream, but sometimes there is one.)

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I definitely agree you deserved the ice cream.

[tarasacon]

I’m a big fan of rewarding one’s self for doing the thing, so yay! phone banking, and yay! ice cream!

[baratron]

Thank you for your hard work.