The Obama campaign set up shop in Philadelphia today. After a briefing on canvassing tactics and breaking up into neighborhood working groups, it was time to hit the streets in earnest.
Here are a collection of photos from the Center City office and the article from The Philadelphia Inquirer covering today's launch of PA for Obama.
The National Campaign Speaks To the Crowd
(Thank god we had a huge room)
Hitting the streets!
And from the Inquirer...
From the street it was hard to spot the small sign on the door for an office four floors up. But inside there was no mistaking you had walked into a grassroots campaign office.
If the coffee spills on the carpet, open bags of Doritos, and plastic folding chairs didn't give it away, the clipboards with Obama's picture on the back in the hands of volunteers eager to register voters did.
"They don't call it the Keystone State for nothing," said volunteer Jordan Dillard, 32, of Mount Airy, adding that he expected every vote to matter.
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Josh Uretsky, cochair of Philadelphians for Obama, said he hoped to sign up more than 1,000 Democrats yesterday.
"People are really excited," he said. "They are excited about him as a candidate and person rather than as somebody to replace Bush."
Link to article
Philly is Obamaville!!!