50 State Canvass: Alaska

(This entry was sent in by Jonathan Teeters, one of your DNC organizers from the great state of Alaska. -- Tim)

This Saturday was a good day to be a Democrat in Alaska!

Our Neighbor-to-Neighbor Canvass came off successfully. While we were by no means the biggest group of volunteers that gathered on April 29th around the nation to spread the Democratic Vision for America, our energy and excitement was certainly right up there with the best of em'!

Our Neighbor-to-Neighbor event featured a door-to-door orientation that I presented to 26 of our very finest Anchorage Democrats, including many people who had never been to any sort of organized political activity! We spent some time discussing the basics of talking with voters, we used our prepared scripts to simulate knocking on that first door of the day, we spent a few hours hitting the streets, then had a great afternoon BBQ to cap it off.

I was able to get lots of great feedback from canvassers on what we should do better next time, and what put a smile on their face. Several canvassers were greeted at the door by extatic voters--happy to see that Democrats are taking the time to develop and communicate a clear message for America and Alaska.

In the end, all of the canvassers repeatedly asked "so when are we going to do this again?" and "we are going to do this on a regluar basis, right?". We plan on sitting down to determine how we can make something like this happen every month, albeit on a different scale.

So, we got the ball rolling here in Anchorage this past weekend, and are now preparing to do the same next weekend in Faribanks and Juneau.

This event provided an excellent opportunity to tap into the groups of active Democrats who are hungry for a coherent national message. I look forward to using up all of the door hangers that the DNC provided as we continue to hit the streets, organizing until we turn Alaska Blue.

On an aside: Thanks for the Spanish door hangers! Tonight I will be distributing them at a very large immigration reform rally here in Anchorage that will bring out hundreds if not thousands in Anchorage's latino community.

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Thank you Jonathon for this post. It is encouraging to hear that you will be distrubting the Spanish Door Hangars at the Immigration Rally.

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PeppermintLizzy on May 1, 2006 at 06:55 PM

Whoops...what kind of an url am I supposed to put in? Hope this works.

Great to hear from Alaska. Your work inspirational. Appreciate your sharing
training details. Will try to share but am new and over burdened. Have yet to get down to center. Am working towards it. Thanks for sharing.

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Beve on May 4, 2006 at 02:04 PM

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