Obama Makes Final-Hour Push in Indiana

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: NYT/AP

CHICAGO (AP) -- Seeking a transcendent victory, Democrat Barack Obama made a final-hour push for Republican-leaning Indiana on Tuesday after casting his own ballot with his young daughters at his side.

''It's going to be tight as a tick here in Indiana,'' Obama told volunteers in Indianapolis trying to get out the vote for the Democratic ticket with only seven hours to go in the area's balloting. ''So the question is who wants it more.''...

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Obama traveled to Indianapolis for a final campaign stop to encourage voters in Indiana to support the Democratic candidate from next door. He helped about two dozen members of United Auto Workers Local 550 in Indianapolis work the phones at their union hall. ''I think we can win Indiana, otherwise I wouldn't be in Indiana,'' he said.

Obama was targeting other swing states in the final hours of voting by doing an hour and a half of satellite television interviews from a Chicago hotel room. The interviews were with local news stations in Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada, Missouri.

Later he planned his voting-day game of basketball with friends and staff -- a habit he liked to stick to in the primaries for good luck -- before watching returns at a Chicago hotel room. After the race is called, he planned to address supporters from a stage built especially for the occasion in Chicago's Grant Park.

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[Aslanspal]

1. That is great news!

It would be wonderful to pick off Indiana right out of the box tonight, I think it can be done and Barack does too, so it is time to follow through, hold that line, stand that line.

It would send a message an hour ahead of time thats for sure.

[Jokerman]

2. That's one of our township satellite offices!

We have five offices in Wayne Township (West Indy) run by paid staffers, one of them in our garage.

The union hall he visited is where we hold our township party meetings.

This is so cool!

[DeepModem Mom]

3. VERY COOL! nt