GOTV starts tomorrow. 

The preparations for Get Out the Vote is a strange logistical endeavor- taking over the basement or the empty floor of a building to sort thousands of lists, campaign lit and assorted other materials into piles by ward and precinct. Packetland as it is affectionately and literally named, is a strange place filled with movement and buzz.  It feels the partisan/human equivalent of an ant hill.

Tonight as those hundreds of stacks of boxes shipped out from packetland were received at action centers across the state, GOTV truly began. Working late into the night sorting and organizing for tomorrows canvass with two organizers assigned to my action center the nervous anxiety creped into my stomach. Volunteers talking to voters and each other about the election. And now its show time!

But what was the most amazing was getting to watch these field organizers, who've been working so hard in this suburban district over the last couple months, experience the magically feeling that I felt when I had my first organizing job 6 years ago. They raved about their favorite super volunteers who would spend the next four days helping us out, and they fluently deliberated about the ward and precincts of the walk packets we were organizing.  They are weary, but excited. And they have no way to anticipate the rush that the next four days will provide. 

Its sort of fun to see GOTV again through the eyes of a new organizer- makes me all the more exciting for the volunteers to start pouring in tomorrow!

(Tomorrow I will actually try and blog about what the word is about Obama, Franken, Aston Media & Elwin Tinklenberg)