There are two kinds of power in the world: money, and people. (And what I've seen today shows that when people pool their money, the latter can trump the former.)
I just returned from a thirteen hour shift at Barack Obama's Campaign for Change field office in North Berkeley, California. Tomorrow, I'll return for the second of four full days of get out the vote operations.
Our (relatively small) call office made over 20,000 calls today to voters in battleground states like Florida, Colorado and Nevada. That alone is pretty remarkable. But what is totally unprecedented is this: the entire office is people powered, fueled by the energy, money and time of hundreds of volunteers.
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