Before Hillary Clinton launched in her campaign speech last Friday night at a New Hampshire fundraiser, she made sure to thank the \u201cthousands of volunteers\u201d who braved the bitter cold to get out the vote for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know how hard you are working. Across the state [you bring] your dreams and determination into this effort, knocking on doors in the winter cold,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n
On the eve of the primary, the Democratic as well as the Republican candidates rely on thousands of volunteers working for them in the Granite State. Some are locals; many are not.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, half of the people at a phone bank at the Clinton campaign office in Manchester were from out of state. \u201cI am a strong Hillary supporter, and obviously this primary is important, so I wanted to come and help,\u201d said Zach Singer, a young New Yorker from Hells Kitchen who works in investment management.<\/p>\n
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Zach Singer, from New Yokr City is a volunteer for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. Photo by Lilly Maier<\/p><\/div>\n
Singer and his fellow volunteers worked in a bright room lined with Hillary 2016 posters and a wall-sized black and white mural that depicts a woman canvassing. They telephoned Democrats and Clinton-leaning independents to remind them about the upcoming primary and to make sure voters know how to get to their polling station. The office is one of 18 Clinton offices throughout the state used as a meeting point for canvassers.<\/p>\n
One canvasser, Betsy Steinman, a retired psychologist from Manhattan, arrived last week and will fly to South Carolina after the primary on Tuesday to continue her work there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked for women\u2019s rights back in the 60’s and 70’s and this is the last barrier that we haven\u2019t broken. So it\u2019s kind of personal for women my age,\u201d Steinman said about her motivation to come to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy experiences have been very positive,\u201d she continued. \u201cA lot of people are not home, because they are working during the day. But I was lucky, I have been getting about a 50 percent rate of actually talking to people. I always ask what their concerns are. And sometimes we are able to talk them over, which is really rewarding\u201d<\/p>\n
Nine-hour shifts for Sanders\u2019 supporters from Connecticut <\/strong><\/p>\nAt the same Democratic fundraiser on Friday night, Bernie Sanders\u2019 campaign provided free tickets to the event for his volunteers. Among those were 20 supporters from Connecticut who rented a house in Concord to canvas for their candidate.<\/p>\n
One of them was Angie Parkinson, a high school teacher who wore a red scarf over her light blue \u201cBernie 2016\u201d shirt.<\/p>\n
Parkinson got inspired by Sanders last summer and said it was like a \u201cmiracle\u201d to find a candidate who shared all her values. \u201cIf you had told me a year ago, that I would be going north in the winter to a colder place and knocking on stranger\u2019s doors for a political candidate, I would have never believed you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Parkinson and her friends spent between six and nine hours a day canvassing during the weekend. In the rural New Hampshire landscape, a car is often needed to go from one house to another.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was gratifying for the most part, but also very tiring,\u201d Parkinson said. \u201cBut of course it was worth it. There were people who weren\u2019t totally sure, and they said, us being there was pretty impressive and that might have pushed them over a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
New Yorkers come to support Donald Trump<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s not only the Democrats who ship volunteers into the Granite state. All but one of the Donald Trump supporters I spoke to in his Manchester campaign office on Saturday were not from New Hampshire, but from upstate New York.<\/p>\n
Laurie and Kevin Bartholomew were among the group of 50 volunteers who drove more than 10 hours to help mobilize voters.<\/p>\n
“We probably could have phone-banked from New York, but we love it here. It’s the first time I am a part of a presidential campaign,” said Kevin Bartholomew, who is called \u201cSanta\u201d by his fellow volunteers because of his long beard.<\/p>\n
They were joined by David J. DiPietro, a Republican New York State Assemblyman. \u201cNew Hampshire is ground zero. We all wanted to be here,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
The volunteers put big \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d signs around the windows of the makeshift campaign office, which made it visible from afar and lured interested voters in. They were greeted by Madonna Priorie, a semi-retired teacher and political activist with Italian roots.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a matter of meeting Mr. Trump for me. It\u2019s a matter of getting the word out,\u201d Priorie said.<\/p>\n
Rallying for their candidate <\/strong><\/p>\nWhen the out of state volunteers weren\u2019t phone banking or canvassing, there was one more item on their to-do list: publically showing their support at a rally.<\/p>\n
Diane Atkins, was among the volunteers who brazed freezing temperatures to hold a sign in the so-called \u201cFree Speech Zone,\u201d a gathering place for political activists just outside of St. Anselm College, where the ABC Republican Debate was held Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The energetic New Yorker from Brooklyn matched her outfit to the red-and-blue campaign logo of Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the man. That’s who I want for president. So I came up here with some friends from New York,” she said.<\/p>\n
Not far from her stood Angel Rhodes and JD Kaplen from Ohio with their \u201cKasich For President\u201d sign. Rhodes took all her vacation days and her husband, a self-employed business man , was losing money, in order to come to New Hampshire to support their former governor. “A Christie supporter asked us, ‘Who is paying you to support Kasich?’ Nobody is! He is a great guy,” Rhodes said.<\/p>\n
Almost all of the far travelled volunteers returned to their home states on Sunday night, because of work commitments. But they will all be watching the primary on Tuesday, and they hope that their political vacation paid off.<\/p>\n
Lilly Maier is a a grad student at NYU’s\u00a0 Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute Magazine Writing Program<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Lilly Maier Before Hillary Clinton launched in her campaign speech last Friday night at a New Hampshire fundraiser, she made sure to thank the \u201cthousands of volunteers\u201d who braved the bitter cold to get out the vote for her. \u201cI know how hard you are working. Across the state [you bring] your dreams and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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