I had a great time volunteering for Barack Obama in Cleveland last weekend. I knocked on doors in a couple of neighborhoods and had a very positive response. People are fired up!
I helped sign up new volunteers at a campaign organizational meeting in Cleveland. An enthusiastic crowd of about 400 people came to hear speakers and find out how they can help Obama win Ohio.
Congressman John Conyers of Detroit was the featured speaker for the event. He said this is the most exciting Presidential campaign he has ever seen and that goes back to Adlai Stevenson.
The campaign is encouraging people to vote early and they have good reason to do so in Cleveland. Cuyahoga county was recently ordered to adopt new voting machines just a few weeks before the election, leaving little time for the public or election judges to familiarize themselves with the new system before election day. People thought this would be a lower turn out election on which to test the new system. But now, the Democratic Presidential nomination could be decided by results from Cleveland and the rest of Cuyahoga.
At the least, I expect returns to come in slowly from Cuyahoga, which has the largest number of Democratic voters of any county in the state. If I lived in Cleveland I'd be voting early too.