I've added pictures of our GOTV office below. It is in a neighborrhood that is 1 or 2 on a scale of 10 economically about a 1/3 of a mile from Morehouse College, Martin Luther King's alma mater. We had a volunteer's car stolen last weekend from across the street.

The building you see with the logo on the door is a historic site. It was owned in the 1920's by the son of a slave and he ran a refuge for lynching survivors there. The 2nd photo is around the corner and the new face of the neighborhood, a community center opening election nite.

We purposely dressed up the storefronts and windows to fire up this long forgotten neighborhood for Barack and people really like it.

I also bought buttons for our volunteers to hand out specifically to the kids in the area so that they would have a souvenir of this historic election. Maybe that will help remind them and motivate them over time to reach a little higher...

GA - Thru Wed. 10/29

Chuck Todd on Morning Joe today said that GA is too close to call and that we will be up late waiting for the results and that SC could surprise as well.

At this pace the non white vote will produce 400K new votes for Obama!! Bush won the state by 550K in 2004.

Kerry only got 23% of the white vote and polling shows Obama at 28%. That 5% is worth at least 150,000 votes.

GA is having issues as well with this volume.

Total - 1,572,293 (+185,000) - still more than double the average of the prior 10 days

• 2004 General Election Turnout - 3.3 Million

African American/Latino/Asian - 556K/ 10K / 8K - 574 K -  67,000 African American votes today alone!!

• 875K (25%) African Americans Voted in 2004 - 88/12 for Kerry
  
• 128k Latinos (4%) voted in 2004 - 56/44 for Bush

AA - 35.4%, 556K vs. 875K (25%)  in all of 2004. A 40% increase thus far. If this holds up that is 360K additional AA votes

Non White % - 36.5% - Holding steady - Target is 30%+ to win the election - this number is the key to watch

We are now at 50.4% of the 2004 vote when 20.2% voted early an 101% increase and we still have a 3 days to go. 693,000 more people have voted early than in 2004.

The latest poll show thas us down one and  Chuck Todd at NBC on Meet the Press Sunday had comments on the black turnout and its implications in GA, NC and other southern states.

NC

Total - 1,847.860 (+220,000)

• 2004 General Election Turnout - 3.55 Million - Bush won by 436,000 votes
  

Non White % - 31.1% - AA - 27.1 - Target is 20%+ to win the election - this has dropped slightly the last 3 days.

Dem early votes up 4.7% and Republicans down 8.2%, Indeps. up 3.5%

52.0% of the total 2004 vote has been reached already when 30.8% voted early!!

780,000 more NC voters have voted this year already than 2004.