Obama is sending 3,600 newly trained volunteers into 17 swing states for six weeks of unpaid organizing work. That’s an average of 212 trained field workers per state. The 3,600 were selected from an applicant field of over 10,000 and they all had to go through telephone interviews. These are very committed folks, and John McCain has nothing to compete with them. I don’t want to overestimate the effectiveness of volunteer organizers, but 212 per state is a lot. This is on top of Obama’s already robust 50-state organization, and on top of the DNC’s 50-state organization.
Forget the polls. The Democrats are going to out-hustle the Republicans even on their home turf.
