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Good Morning! This morning we are going on a field trip to Concord then we are heading to our placements. It's going to be a long day! The Iowa Caucus is tomorrow! We'll see how that goes...

The field trip was fun!! It took us about an hour to get to Concord which is the state capital of New Hampshire. Downtown Concord's architecture is so cute and old fashioned. The state house was beautiful. Our first stop was at the New Hampshire State Library. The class went to the primary museum. The museum was so informative and had many interesting artifacts from Presidential races from the past. It was cool to see the old literature and signs from the campaigns from 1960's and such. We also went to the Democratic and
Republican Party Headquarters where we met with Chairman Raymond Buckley and Fergus Cullen. They explained to us a little bit about the parties.

After a lunch at Burger King, we drove back to Nashua and headed back to our offices. Right away we were sent out to canvas. The campaign gaves us a 15 passenger van to canvas together for the day. The 5 of us and one UNH jersey girl layered our clothes and knocked on doors. During the day, the canvassing went really well. I still can not get over the fact that the New Hampshire residents are so in tune with the political situation of our Country. However, some still are unfriendly and annoyed with us canvassers. For example, we can see the family sitting watching tv and we will see them get up when we knock on the door. We did have one lady who got all the way in our car and chased us down to tell us she supported Senator Clinton!

Once the sun went down Canvassing was a whole different story. Adam and I took on the streets in the 15 degree weather and literally felt everything in our body feel numb we thought we were going to die! In the end we survived and got out the vote!