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I’m not going to win the award for the volunteer who knocked on the most doors, but I did get out from behind the keyboard this afternoon and canvass an apartment complex in Coral Springs for Ron Klein and Grassroots Patriots (juggling the two lists and trying to see where they overlap).

I wound up dragging my kids along with me for the first half hour, but then had to take a break and run them over to McDonald’s as their reward for being patient with me. Dropped them back with their Mom, and did another hour but then had to get back home for another family obligation in the evening.

So how does that make me different from a lot of other people who are busy with work and family? It doesn’t. But it does show where the do-it-yourself campaign style of the Grassroots Patriots Lightning Strike get out the vote effort can fit into any schedule. The time I put in may have been fractured, and not as much as I ideally might have liked, but I still knocked on a few doors that would not have been knocked on otherwise. The Klein campaign had a more formal canvassing effort they were doing in another city on Sunday, but I never would have been able to fit that in. By talking them into giving me a walk list to do on my own schedule, I at least got something done. I had them assign me a precinct just a few blocks from where I live (my own precinct is just outside of the district Klein is targeting), so I’d be more likely to be able to get over there in whatever small blocks of time I can shake free.

I’m hoping to keep chipping away at that walk list over the next few weeks and make a little bit of a difference on the ground, rather than just on the web.