“Saturday afternoon canvassing is always hard because people are never home or just don’t have the energy to come to the door,” Diaz said.
Saturday’s trip was the first big College Democrats event for first-year students.
“I am definitely going to come back here. I am glad it’s an organization you actually do something in,” Kathryn A. Eidmann ’06 said. “It’s really nice to get out of Cambridge and to get back into real America.”
Eidmann and Fiona J. Kaye ’06—canvassing partners and roommates—both worked on campaigns before coming to Harvard, and both were initially uncomfortable about campaigning outside their home state for unfamiliar candidates.
“I didn’t feel right at first about campaigning in New Hampshire because it’s not where I’m from, but then I realized that any work you can do is good,” Kaye said.
—Staff writer Christopher M. Loomis can be reached at cloomis@fas.harvard.edu.