"these Greens are everywhere"

We survived what is typically the most difficult part of a day like this: organizing lunch. Now we're ready for the afternoon rush.

Overhead at one precinct was a Dem operative calling someone and saying "these Greens are everywhere" and telling the guy on the other end of the phone he was needed. Now, we haven't had complete coverage of every precinct, not even close. But somehow we've managed to roll out a localized organization at least on par with the Democrats in large chunks of the area.

Ironically, Obama is helping us out quite a bit in two ways we hadn't expected. The big rally downtown has required all of the street and sanitation workers - people who might normally have been given the day off, or who might have conveniently went around and picked up Green signs while leaving other signs alone - to report to Grant Park. And then a lot of people who might ordinarily be doing work within their neighborhoods hopped in cars and went off to Indiana instead.

Things are actually going significantly better than I had expected.