“Worth it if we get a vote,” Mowery replied.

The voter lists furnished by the campaign led the canvassers to registered Republicans who have voted consistently in primary and general elections. Donor lists also played a role.

A group of kids watched the three volunteers cruise through a neighborhood, oddly holding onto the side of the vehicle. “What are you doing?” one girl asked.

“We’re campaigning,” Mowery saed.

“For who?”

“Bush!” he responded.

“You’re making the right choice!” the girl yelled back.

The lists have the occasional mistake. “We need our government back—can you give me one good reason to vote for Bush?” Singer said one homeowner told him. Singer gave him a piece of campaign literature.

Jerry Kapetonakis, a Derry resident and Bush-Cheney volunteer, said because he lives in a battleground state his home has been hit six times by volunteers, all from Massachusetts.

“They’re just kids who are passionate about the election,” said Carolyn Payne Lomax, a Bush worker from Waco, Texas, who has been in New Hampshire for 12 days. She pointed to Yale and the University of New Hampshire as other sources of student volunteers.

With less than three hours left before polls close, the campaign office wanted a higher turnout level, the volunteers said. A new batch hit the road again with lists of people who have not voted. A group, including HRC president Mark T. Silvestri ’05 filled, up a van but quickly opted to go through several lists on their cell phones.

“We want to make sure everyone voting for Bush actually goes and votes,” said Meghan E. Grizzle ’07, one of the students who placed calls.

The van parked and the handful of canvassers hopped out to hit as many houses as they can.

“This is like the fourth person to ring my bell tonight,” one homeowner said. One elderly gentleman referred to the neighborhood’s no soliciting policy and said that he already voted.

“What time do polls close?” he asked. The students tell him 8 p.m.

“I bet you’re happy about that,” he said as they walked away.