It's been another long day in Rochester, NH, we just finished printing the first round of GOTV turfs for tomorrow and we'll hopefully get a few hours of sleep soon before returning early in the morning. The logistics that go into even a small city's campaign operation are incredible; I'm sure I'll write more about this later. It's been truly inspiring to be part of this small office, a small piece of a huge movement that began two years ago and culminates in a collective decision tomorrow. Every drop will count: Kerry beat Bush by 14 votes in Rochester in '04, and 7000 more NH votes for Gore in 2000 would have kept Bush out of office.

This afternoon, a handful of Republicans (whose HQ followed the Dems across the street) went out on the street to do "visibility," holding signs for passing cars. (Like so much in the campaign, this doesn't seem to be particularly effective in itself, but would hurt if it were lacking, if only because the other side does it.) So to their three or four sign holders, a dozen or more of our volunteers, mostly women, went across the street from them with Obama/Shaheen/Porter/etc signs. The Republicans started shouting all kinds of filth: calling the Dems communists, telling them they didn't have jobs, baby-killers, etc. Our volunteers returned after an hour ago, surprised but not shaken. Those minutes said so much about the state of our politics today, and why Barack Obama needs to win tomorrow.