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...very hopeful about that. Went to a double bill at my art house here in northern Michigan: To Kill a Mockingbird and Bulworth. And I was on Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher on Friday. This fall I have spent the bulk of my time helping bring Michigan from a swing state to solid for Obama...
Unless you win, in which case I am worried for you. Because if my headline does become another “Dewey Defeats Truman,” the students in the dining halls threatening to kill themselves will probably get violent, ugly things could happen in the swing states tonight, and bitter Obamacans across the nation will leave America even more polarized at a time when the country desperately needs to stick together to pull through. And just for that, I see why politically mild Canada would seem so appealing...
...course, these spectacles are carefully orchestrated by the campaign to underline Obama's momentum going into election day. The venues are picked to maximize the impact on early voting in swing districts of states won by George W. Bush in 2004. The crowds are a mix of long-time supporters and targeted fence sitters, though when you're pushing 100,000 it seems more like everyone and their brother. And the speeches are pure gravy: light on policy and full of Obama's greatest hits, from variations on his 2004 Democratic National Convention line "We are more than a collection...
...relates to Democratic voters," says Robert Gibbs, Obama's communications director. "In other words, if you've got an area where Democrats normally comprise 20% of the vote, and you normally lose it 55-45, and you go there, it raises the importance of the area with swing voters and changes the underlying numbers as well...
...Courting sporadic Democrats in addition to independent and swing voters makes for diverse audiences both in age and race. Careful to be inclusive, Obama rarely mentions "Republicans" or "Democrats" except to tell audiences how he'd bring them together. The rallies have also been some of the largest in a campaign known for record-breaking crowds. At most events there is a carefully cultivated atmosphere of history-in-the making, inspiring tens of thousands of people to line up for hours, many taking the day off work or pulling their children out of school for the event. In pouring rain...