Ellen Leary is a Grassroots Correspondent for HuffPost's OffTheBus.

Saturday, November 1st, was one fine day. My friend Adrian (see last week's post) and I met up to canvass in Virginia, but anticipating that we would be sent far into the state from our staging point in Bethesda, MD,...

Ellen Leary is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

Having spent parts of the past week calling from the Obama campaign office in Bethesda, MD, I decided it was time to put my foot where my mouth was...

Grace Babakhanian is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

An Obama win in Virginia would be a slice of heaven for both "That One" and the Party. It was worth spending a very wet day there.

Having...

Ellen Leary is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

Names, locations, quotes, and phones numbers have been scrambled to protect the privacy of the citizens. The quotes are verbatim. Special thanks to my cubby neighbor Kathy Stuart, a...