Spreading The Word On Obama In Ohio, Haircut By Haircut
(CBS)
From CBS Radio Correspondent Barry Bagnato:
(AKRON, OHIO) A man pulls up to Chez Marchele, gets out with his wife, and sees an Obama sign in the window. "I don't know if I'm gonna vote this year," he tells the owner. He's tired of politics. Marchele Sneed puts down her clippers and slips into her second job, selling her customers on Barack Obama, "just giving them any information they need and how he stands on the issues."
Her neighborhood business here is part of a network of barbershops and beauty salons recruited to be Obama campaign "outposts." Located mainly in African-American neighborhoods, they deal directly with voters the Illinois Senator needs to win this important election state. "It's kind of the one-on-one attention you can give somebody just sitting in your chair," Sneed says. Her shop and the others helped register voters before the deadline passed. "My job now is to get them the information they need to make that final decision and also to let them know they can vote early."
