Trick or Vote!

This Halloween, you can hop on The Bus and make a difference. Finally, energetic young progressives have figured out how to make campaigning fun.

Has a campaigner wearing a cape ever come to your door? How about one wearing an Obama mask? This Halloween you might be visited by folks who don’t want candy. They want your political support instead. Or maybe instead of staying home this year, you want to break out your Batman costume and get on The Bus too.

The Washington Bus [a youth-oriented, traveling advocacy group] is…..teaming up with grassroots groups across the country to present Trick or Vote, America’s largest non-partisan get-out-the-vote canvass... in costume!

In the Seattle area, The Bus will take 250 costumed volunteers canvassing with a goal of knocking on 8,000 doors. When they're done, the group will celebrate the night and their success with a party on Capitol Hill. What better way to spend the holiday than getting out the vote and partying with progressives?

If you’ve ever doorbelled for a candidate, you know how much work it is to trudge up and down driveways and not find a single voter at home. On Halloween, a porch light will tell you if voters are home or not. Doors will open magically for you.

Plus, if you want to make a difference, canvassing is the way to do it. A Yale University study has shown that personal voter contact increases voter turnout almost 10 percent more than impersonal methods like mailers, radio and television ads do.

Imagine the effect you could have by talking to 20-30 voters only five days before election day. And if you dress up like Sarah Palin you can really scare them into voting. You 'betcha!