Last Day Before Election Day

Monday before Election Day is just banging out packets - knocking on as many doors to remind them to vote tomorrow and/or drop off their ballots. After a weekend of early mornings and hours of driving, it was nice to sleep a little and just campaign.

Gail returned to Los Angeles this morning. She wanted to spend election day and especially election night with her kids. The house just won't be the same without her. She did commit to making phone calls all day on election day to turn out voters across the swing states.

All the neighborhoods ran together at this point, but Bob and I did recognize, that our turf today was the ones we had canvasses before and had spent wandering around looking for where we had parked the car on the first round. This time we made a mental note.

It is just "do" time - no thinking. I becomes a numbers game. I was not feeling so much hopeful as proud. Proud of the amazing work the organizing team did and that I had played some part in it. I feel like I offered help and some of my muscle and my experience, although really, they were doing great without my sage wisdom. I just did stuff that needed doing.

It's one of the things I love about retirement; I can be a contributor without needing to be in charge or even right. There is a luxury in that if I'm "wrong"those in charge can decide it isn't a good way to go - and that's great.

So tomorrow is the last day...Read more