DCCC Schedules 100K Volunteer Shifts In 60 Districts

Dems swarm in key states
By MARTIN KADY II | 11/1/08 4:08 PM EST


Early Saturday morning, two buses filled with 100 young Democratic staffers and volunteers rumbled out of downtown Washington headed for the newly discovered battlegrounds of Virginia Beach and Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

The scene is being repeated across the country this weekend, in places like Albuquerque, central Minnesota and suburban Las Vegas as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tries to outdo the legendary GOP vote turnout machines of past election cycles with what may prove the biggest ground game in modern history.

The DCCC, having learned the lessons of Karl Rove’s 72-hour get-out-the-vote effort in 2000 and 2004, has set up 100,000 total volunteer “shifts” around the clock over the next three days in 60 battleground districts — a greatly expanded playing field from the 35 districts Democrats targeted in their successful 2006 bid to take control of the House.

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