Service Hour Post Numero deux!

Well, yesterday I went back over to the Reston Farmer's Market to help the Reston Republicans out at their table. Not as many weirdos as last time to talk about (I know, it's sad) but it was still extremely interesting.

I got their at about 10 in the morning when I knew the market would really be crowded. My superviser, Harry, was there, and I saw that he was able to get some NOBAMA buttons and also some more information to hand out about Wolf. Later, another Reston Republican member came by named Judith as well as Harry's friend Lisa. Before I knew it, we were in business. A lot of people started coming over to the table. I was able to get a few more people interested in the RCGR and hand them little bags filled with information about McCain, Palin, Wolf, and other republican candidates. Like the last time when I met the New Englander who was shockingly a Republican, this time I met this wonderful Hispanic woman who was Republican. She was a middle-aged lady who said she had already voted because she was going to be out of town on election day. She told us how she hates the fact that people automatically believe she is going to vote for Obama just because she is Hispanic. She told us how she moved to America a few years ago and it took her a whole year just to learn the English language. She adores Palin and believes that McCain is the man. So again, we're kinda going against the facts here. Woohoo!

So then there was this kid. He looked about,oh...let's say 9. He walked by the table once and saw the NOBAMA buttons. He said "Wow, those are cool." I gave him a piece of candy that we have for kids at the table and went on his way. About an hour or so later. He was walking around with his friend, who just happened to be holding Obama bumber stickers. This kid took a look at the table and then held the bumber stickers to us in protest or something, then walked away. I was like, yeah, keep walkin, twerp. Like anyone cares what he thinks anyway.

Almost every single person who walked by the table kept asking "Do we have a chance?" We were asked the by the Hispanic woman, by a mother with two little boys under the age of 4, by the little old lady who keeps praying. Others were very confident and believed that there was no question. Some didn't like Obama or McCain, but they decided that since they had to pick, they'd pick McCain. What was also interesting was that people like Lisa and Harry who have gown up in Europe (Harry grew up in England, Lisa grew up in Germany) knew the effects of some ideas such as universal health care. They just had two words for that: "bad idea."

I don't if I will be going again next Saturday. But I have pictures this time. Enjoy!

P.S. The violinists are these two juniors from Madison. They always play right next to our table. They say they're not playing for the Republicans, they are doing it to get some donations. But we like to think they are encouraging people to come to our table. =-)