Most of the working stiffs don't hear much about what's going on elsewhere and worry, worry, worry that racism or ignorance or low information voters will kill the chances for our candidate to take the presidency and turn the country around before it hits another iceberg.
So I offer you this from a discussion thread at TPM today over the Obama campaign's plans to throw $39 million at Florida and whether that's a good thing:
As someone who lives here in Florida, I can vouch for the amount of money, people and resources being put in play here by the Obama campaign. Here in Hillsborough County (Tampa) alone, we have four field offices and one central office. When I stopped by one yesterday to drop off some supplies, I was amazed at the number of volunteers there at 2pm on a work day. (The paid staff was off at training.)And this:
These offices are located in key areas of the community, in pretty visible locations. The number of Obama tv ads has been steady for several months. The enthusiasm is palpable.
And the GOTV is extremely active, with groups doing neighborhood, house to house, canvassing every weekend.
On the flip side, with the exception of some tv ads that started running this past month, there is little visible activity coming from the McCain campaign at all. He has made a couple of appearances, and done some fundraising, but the turnout has been less than spectacular.
I am very optimistic.
Here is an one the ground view. I currently as I write this have a GOTV voter registration rally at my office. We started a little after noon today and have registered 150 new voters in the last two hours. Our goal was 50.And this:
NEW VOTERS
We have two campaign workers here but the effort is supported by folks here in the office... we have cold drinks and snacks we have been giving out. We can win Florida if we continue to work the ground game.
New CNN poll came out a little while ago with Florida at a 48/48 tie. McCain's campaign must be cleaning out their pants right about now.
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