Knowing that there would be a crowd, we arrived 30 minutes early, but found others had done the same. We were warmly greeted and handed a map to the overflow staging area. The early ones got to move on to the second location. The staff is used to handling crowds, between 900 and 1700 volunteers from California show up each weekend. Today they expected 1200.
Back in the car, we drove a few miles to the overflow staging area on Prototype Road.
In the photo above a woman from the Washoe County Democratic Party schooled us in Nevadan ways: how to pronounce Nevada (short a,) that they like their guns here and don't want nuclear waste stored at Yucca Mountain.
Then Obama staffer Dennis handed us our packets, urged us to try to avoid mentioning where we live, along with providing us tips on going to door-to-door. And off we went...
Knowing that there would be a crowd, we arrived 30 minutes early, but found others had done the same. We were warmly greeted and handed a map to the overflow staging area. The early ones got to move on to the second location. The staff is used to handling crowds, between 900 and 1700 volunteers from California show up each weekend. Today they expected 1200. 
Back in the car, we drove a few miles to the overflow staging area on Prototype Road.
In the photo above a woman from the Washoe County Democratic Party schooled us in Nevadan ways: how to pronounce Nevada (short a,) that they like their guns here and don't want nuclear waste stored at Yucca Mountain.
Then Obama staffer Dennis handed us our packets, urged us to try to avoid mentioning where we live, along with providing us tips on going to door-to-door. And off we went...
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