Roy Winnick
Princeton, N.J., July 2, 2012 n Supporters of President Obama throughout Mercer County have launched a county-wide effort to reelect the President in November, and hope to recruit several hundred local volunteers this summer to help do so, it was announced today.
Barbara Taylor, an educational consultant who lives in Princeton and who has worked as a volunteer on many presidential election campaigns, has been named Team Leader for Mercer County—a volunteer position—by the Obama campaign. In her new role, Ms. Taylor will have overall responsibility for organizing Mercer County’s volunteer reelection effort.
Ms. Taylor will work closely with the campaign’s state headquarters team, as well as with volunteer leaders throughout Mercer County, to recruit and direct volunteers to help re-elect President Obama. Most of the New Jersey volunteers’ campaign efforts will be devoted to helping the President carry Pennsylvania, which the Obama campaign regards as crucial to reaching the 270 electoral votes needed to win in November.
Reflecting the importance of winning Pennsylvania, Mercer County volunteers have already begun phone-banking and canvassing in that state, where a new voter-ID law has made it particularly important to educate Pennsylvania voters about the President’s accomplishments over the past three and a half years and tell them what they will need to do to comply with the new law and vote for him on November 6th.
“It’s unusual for a presidential campaign volunteer effort to begin this early in the campaign season,” Ms. Taylor said. “But given the importance of carrying Pennsylvania in November and the added complication of Pennsylvania’s new voter-ID law, we need to begin now to get the job done.”
Supporters of the President who want to work on the campaign have several volunteer options, including phone-banking, door-to-door canvassing in lower Bucks County, Pa., staffing volunteer tables, hosting campaign events, and data-entry. Forthcoming volunteer events are posted on the “Attend an Event” page of the OFA website, www.barackobama.com. Volunteers can also sign up and find out about volunteer activities in Mercer County by contacting Ms. Taylor at [email protected].
The local Obama volunteer team is currently looking for office space in a convenient Mercer County location, and plans to rent such space later this summer. In 2008, the Obama volunteer campaign team operated out of several locations in Mercer County, including on Nassau Street in Princeton, and by Election Day had several thousand local volunteers engaged in a broad range of campaign activities.
Media contact: Roy Winnick, 609-937-1590 or [email protected].

