Bake Sale for Obama?

I know several people who support Barack Obama, voted for him in the primary, donated to his campaign, but have yet to volunteer their time. Some people are turned off by the thought of phone banking. I admit that I was too, until I started doing it. It was much better than I thought it would be. There's still phone banking to be done, but there are a lot of other activities, even in states where the primary has already occurred.

Sacramento for Obama had a meeting last week. With over 120 people (my estimate) crammed into the new office space, committees formed. I'm not sure I can remember them all, but here are some of them:
- special events - help plan and participate in events to recruit other Obama supporters, new voters, volunteers, etc.
- volunteer - contact people who've agreed to volunteer and let them know about volunteer opportunities
- database management - like it sounds
- communications - included the speakers bureau
- media - help write letters to the editor to keep positive messages about Barack out there
- tabling - go table at weekly events and get the word out about Barack
- canvassing - help get new voters registered, find volunteers, identify Barack supporters so we're ready for November
They're also looking for people to volunteer to staff the Sacramento headquarters, so the office can be open more hours.
And there's still phonebanking on the weekends. If you speak Spanish and are willing to phonebank, you're a premium volunteer. :-)

So if you've put off volunteering because you don't want to phonebank, there are plenty of other options.

While I know I can always do more, I decided several months ago that I didn't want to feel at the end of this campaign that I should have done more to make sure Barack got elected.

If you want to volunteer, go to Barackobama.com and click on volunteer. That will get you hooked up with the local office, whereever you are.