Voicemail

Finally got around to checking my Voicemail and discovered five messages, one a hangup, one offering me a great new deal on satellite TV, and three from the Obama campaign (which had basically been leaving the phones alone over the month, allowing the McCain campaign all the robocall rope it needed to hang itself): one call just making sure I knew the polling address, the poor woman apologizing for not being sure how to pronounce "Baha'i" (my polling place is the Metro Denver Baha'i Center, which she pronounced "BA-ha," like the peninsula). Then the next day another call from an Obama worker, this woman being a lot more thorough than the last, said the address, got "ba-HIGH" right, spelled out the street name B-A-Y-A-U-D (is only four blocks from where I live, so I know it well), told me the voting hours, gave me a number to call if I needed a ride, reminded me to be sure to bring an I.D.

Then got a robocall from a cheerful Joe Biden, asking me to vote for change.

As FiveThirtyEight has been consistently reporting, the Obama campaign has the people on the ground, an enthusiastic voter base, and basic competence, which ought to be enough to counter the usual Republican ability to turn out more voters and to disenfranchise those likely to vote Democratic.

( North Dakota could be interesting )

Campaign Worker Lies To Voter

Got a hanging leaflet from Obama on my door handle. It gave detailed descriptions of what can be used as an I.D. when one goes to vote. And I got another phone call from an Obama worker, hurriedly reading a script that among other things said that the race was narrowing and that therefore my vote was crucial. I do not believe that the race is narrowing, certainly not in Colorado, maybe in Pennsylvania, though all the signs there are that Obama isn't losing anything, just that McCain is gaining undecideds, which won't win the state for him since Obama is already over 50%.

( Obama victory predicted )