Happy New Year to all!

As we roll down the homestretch for the first Caucus—tomorrow in Iowa, and the first Primary— January 10 in New Hampshire,  I suspect we are all enjoying the entertainment provided by the Republican candidates, as they battle to best one another (and don’t worry—the Obama team is taking careful notes of all the slamming being done by one of another).

The real purpose of this email is to encourage you to consider more active participation on OUR side, by lending a hand to the NH effort over the next eight days.

There are a multitude of ways on a choice of days, for you to help—you can make calls as soon as Wednesday from Boston, or this week from Arlington or many other Boston suburbs, or you could take a weekend day trip to canvass or call in Nashua, Manchester, Derry, or Portsmouth.  There is also a substantial GOTV effort planned for Primary Day itself, if you have the time next Tuesday.  This weekend carpools are leaving from Boston, Cambridge, Newton and many other places, but you also can travel solo and on your own schedule or with your own group.  One thing is for sure—the Campaign can surely use you help, and nothing sharpens your ability to advocate for Barack Obama more than practicing it!

I hope to see you at the phone banks, and let me know if you are planning to head north.

There are plenty of reasons to be discouraged, I realize, but there is much that has been done (—if you don’t have a hefty list of accomplishments I shall send you one), and certainly there is so much more to be done.  We need to insure that President Obama is in office for a second term, and that won’t happen without your help.  Just take a look at Eric Cantor last night on 60 Minutes if you need any clarity on this point.  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7393500n

So please make a commitment—even an hour or two on the phone, and it will definitely help.

Below I list a few of the options for assisting in NH, and if nothing suits then check out many more at https://my.barackobama.com/page/event/search_simple?source=primary-nav (you’ll need to click “no” to view all the options).