Obama Volunteers Get Out the West Village Vote

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Obama Volunteers Get Out the West Village Vote
Posted by Shea O'Rourke at 11:38 AM, February 5, 2008



Ray Dominguez represents the change we’ve been hearing so much about this campaign season.

“In 2004, when I watched Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, I was a Republican,” the Obama campaign volunteer recalled this morning while handing out flyers at a West Village Starbucks. “But I found myself saying, ‘This man’s going to be president one day.’ I really said that. As a Republican, I wanted not to like him, but that was an outstanding speech.”

That was just the start of Dominguez’s turnaround. Since 2004, well, he’s become a little jaded with the current administration — as he says of his switch to Democrat, “Seven years of this will do it to you.”

Then came Iowa.

“I was always kind of cynical about Obama’s chances, but after Iowa, I knew I had to be a part of this.”

So Dominguez got up at 4:30 this morning, after a night of Giants celebrations, to volunteer in a day-long effort to win votes. Along with several other volunteers, he’s working from the Sheridan Square Starbucks — just one of 19 Obama hubs in Manhattan, 14 in Brooklyn, seven in the Bronx, five in Queens and one in Staten Island.

At 6 a.m., Dominguez and two fellow organizers fought the morning darkness and the sleepy Sinatra tunes with talk of their hopes for the day, with a side of today’s Komodo Dragon Blend.

One of the first volunteers to arrive was Nancy Talbot, who, along with her husband, was a long-time supporter of the Clintons after her husband attended Oxford with Bill Clinton in the late ‘60s and was in Hilary’s class at Yale Law in the early ‘70s. But a few years ago, when the Talbots were living in Chicago, a friend turned them on to a rising state senator.

“It is time for a change,” Talbot said, clamping her hands together. “I am an old foot soldier, and I am so thrilled and excited to have these young people telling me how to take action.”

Talbot headed out into the cold, equipped with a new cardboard sign — she gave her last one to a passing bus driver who wanted to show his support for Obama as he drove around the city.

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