By: Michael H. Cottman and Deborah Douglas
CHICAGO – In the sprawling 11th-floor offices of the Obama for America headquarters overlooking Michigan Avenue, an enormous cadre of volunteers in cramped cubicles field phone calls, monitor media reports, reach out to minority voters, work on last-minute strategies and ramp up the high-tech component of the operation.
The mood inside Sen. Barack Obama's campaign among its hundreds of young volunteers is upbeat, busy - but not over-confident.
On the eve of Election Day, Obama’s senior aides were huddled in their offices still deciding whether to send Obama to one last campaign stop Tuesday – perhaps somewhere in the Mid-West - or allow the Illinois senator to finally rest and relax after 20 months on the road.
“Election Day is for campaign strategists and voters,” Corey Ealons, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, told BlackAmericaWeb.com Monday. “There’s not much more the candidate can do.”
Even as Obama campaign workers were working around the clock, races in Florida and Virginia were tightening although Obama was holding an 11-point lead over Republican John McCain, according to a USA Today poll, which showed Obama’s lead widening in the final 24 hours before Election Day.
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