I was at work yesterday when a very nice young lady approached me.
“Have you registered to vote yet?” she asked.
“Um, I voted in the last presidential election but haven’t voted since.”
“Well, we’ll get you re-registered just to be sure,” she said and asked for my information.
This encounter made me think of my friend Michael who is now working for the Obama campaign. He started out by moving to Georgia to volunteer by coordinating voter registeration efforts. As we updated each other on our progress I learned that he was so good at encouraging people to volunteer for the campaign that he was given a promotion, a free place to live, a free car to drive and a small gas and food stipend.
Then, they decided to pay him a nice salary to continue doing a good job.
I’m so proud of him, but when the Obama people caught me, I had to laugh and think to myself, “Obama’s crew is doing a great job, I’m glad they got Michael.