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Campaigns uncork get-out-the-vote operations
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| News Date | Sunday, November 2, 2008 01:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | McCain, Obama unleash telephone calls, mailing, door-knockings in massive GOTV effort
NEDRA PICKLER and LIZ SIDOTI
AP News
Nov 02, 2008 14:02 EST
Barack Obama and John McCain uncorked massive get-out-the-vote operations in more than a dozen battleground states Sunday, millions of telephone calls, mailings and door-knockings in a frenzied, fitting climax to a record-shattering $1 billion campaign. Together, they'll spend about $8 per presidential vote.
"We don't need to boo," Obama told restless supporters who jeered his mention of President Bush. "We just need to vote." The crowd answered his plea by chanting, "Yes, we can! Yes, we can!"
With just two days to go, most national polls show Obama ahead of McCain, and state surveys suggest the Democrat's path to the requisite 270 electoral votes — and perhaps far beyond — is much easier to navigate than McCain's.
Polls show the six closest states are Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada and Ohio — all won by Bush and made competitive by Obama's record-shattering fundraising.
All that's left now for the candidates is make sure people vote Tuesday — if they haven't already.
Indeed, Election Day is becoming a misnomer. About 27 million absentee and early votes were cast in 30 states as of Saturday night, more than ever. Democrats outnumbered Republicans in pre-Election Day voting in key states. |
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