Addendum addendum.

7) The county treasurer made a crapload of good homemade food for volunteers, as usual:

- breakfast strata (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) for breakfast.
- 20lbs of Italian beef and chili (with 40lbs of ground beef) for lunch.
- a crockpot of vegetarian chili for dinner, along with an OBAMA carrot cake that had the campaign logo in red, white, and blue frosting.

They have hospitality like no other there.  I thanked all of the local Democratic Party people profusely.

The one older (heavyset) (white) lady who had had a beer on the porch with (black) voters in a (bad) neighborhood back in 2008 when she did canvassing was very upset during lunch, b/c the Italian beef ran out and she didn't know that chili was coming.

"I just feel so awful," she was like.  "There's all these people here, what are they going to eat?".

I asked her if I should run to the grocery store and get pre-made subs like they served a few weeks ago, and we started to figure that out (money, how I would get there, etc.), but then luckily the chili came.

8) That same lady was talking with the county treasurer about election night.

"I just can't wait for this to all be over," she was like.

"You gonna need someone to drive you home like last time?", the treasure asked her.

"Oh yeah," she was like, "I'm going to get messed up."

9) One (mid-30s) (black) woman with a piercing through the skin below her lower lip mentioned her girlfriend, so I made sure to tell her that Tammy Baldwin was a lesbian.

"I didn't know that," she was like.  "They should know that down at [name of the local gay club]!"

Then she added, "I'd get with her."

She also said a bunch of her family was just plain lazy and never voted, even though they were on food stamps and stuff, so we strategized on how we could get them to the polls on election day.  We went through same-day registration stuff together, then she was going to hop online to figure out where their precinct was, and then she was going to go over there and drive them all on election day before going to work in the afternoon.

She also said she had blood clots in her lungs and because she worked in  a factory job without insurance making generators, she had $80,000 in medical bills she had to pay.