Day Three

Today was a long one at 14 hours but now is over at 2:25 AM.

I was up until 6 AM trouble-shooting a video broadcast issue that was not resolved. Seems the issues that QuickTime Player had before the 7.3.1 still persist making it impossible to check the feed for quality, so I had to give up.

Because I set my iPhone's alarm clock to the wrong day--I thought today would be Friday, not Saturday, I woke up at 11 AM and didn't get in until 12:30 PM. Once I got in, it seemed that the order for the day was data entry. Why is that so important?

When Senator McCain's campaign re-aligned last Summer, one of the things it did was cut costs dramatically. That meant that allot of the work is done by people. Unlike Romney's campaign, every single voter who is called has a human voice from the McCain campaign on the other end. Others use machines to filter out their calls, but we do it by hand. Literally.

Each volunteer caller, some of whom have been Representative Christopher Shays, among other members of Congress, fills out a call sheet indicating whether the call went through, the person answering is or is not a McCain supporter, and whether that household needs a ride to the polls, wants a sign, etc. Once that info is written down by the caller, we take that info and put into the campaign's database. By hand.

I typed in about 2,000 names today.

Slow work. Yup, very slow.

But necessary since this is the one of the important ways that the campaign tracks how voters are thinking about Senator McCain and getting those who need help to the polls so that they can exercise their right and cast a vote. Granite State residents take this right very seriously and I think it's great that all of the campaigns here are trying their best make sure voters have zero hinderance in exercising that right.

Later in the day, I designed the Press Credential badges. As far as New Hampshire is concerned, that's probably the last design work I'll do since the primary is on Tuesday, January 8th.

Well, that's it for me--I'm tired and a bit delirious. Night all.