Please follow and like us: Ohio State students phone banking for Hilary Clinton in Smith-Steeb Hall on March 9. Credit: Nick Roll With a Democratic town hall coming to the Mershon Auditorium on Sunday and the Ohio primary on Tuesday, local campaigners for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are plugging away with their on-campus efforts. Clinton volunteers organized a phone-banking event in the Smith-Steeb Hall on Wednesday evening, in addition to their other Columbus events. Volunteers supporting Sanders phone banked in Hagerty Hall on Wednesday and Thursday. The Sanders volunteers scheduled a “Get Out The Vote” rally Friday evening at 7 p.m. at The Varsity Club restaurant, and a canvass on Saturday at 1 p.m., with Park-Stradley residence hall listed as the meeting point. Sarah Lukowski, the Sanders campaign volunteer running the phone bank on Wednesday, said that every call helps campaign efforts. “The biggest part of a campaign is contacting people and informing them about (the candidate),” said the graduate student in developmental psychology. Lukowski was a volunteer on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign when she was a graduate student at Ohio State in 2012, but this is her first year leading events for a campaign. Lukowski, a delegate for Sanders in the Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District, will attend the Democratic National Convention if Sanders gets more than 15 percent of the vote, due to the apportioning process that the Democratic Party uses in elections. …
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