The campaigning is now for all practical purposes done. The only thing left to do is complete the final stage of each campaign’s get out the vote operations. So this afternoon we stopped by the central phone bank that the Obama campaign in Illinois (not the national campaign) is running here in Chicago, using volunteers to reach out to voters in swing states.
The place was a bit of a zoo, with lots of volunteers showing up to help, but it was a controlled chaos. It took me a minute to realize why all these people were sitting on the floor in the building’s lobby, but it turned out to be overflow from the phone bank operation in the basement. Not enough tables and chairs, so volunteers would just plop down on the floor with a cell phone and a call list and start dialing.
Here’s our report:
