The top 2 posts on Marc Ambinder site are making me nervous. Do you think they are just rallying the

[jezebel]

troops?
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/


04 Nov 2008 04:34 pm
Minnesota "Closer?"
A reader writes:


I'm a student at Carleton College who has contributed (financially and with my time) to the Obama campaign. I just got an automated call from Jeff Blodgett, the chair of the MN campaign. The text of the call was:

"Hello, this is Jeff Blodgett from the Minnesota for Obama campaign. Our initial data shows this election is significantly closer than the polls predicted. We are putting out an urgent call for volunteers... We are organized groups to knock on doors at five P.M., or earlier if you can, for our final GOTV operation." This was followed by different numbers to call based on your residence.



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04 Nov 2008 04:25 pm
An Obama "Urgent" E-mail
A New York City-based Obama home phonebanker who's been making calls through the MyBO.com hub to PA and VA says he just received this e-mail:


Friends -- Barack needs your help now -- our data indicates that the results will be very close in many states. I can't emphasize enough how urgent this message is. Please go to http://my.barackobama.com/call and start calling as soon as you can. We are not going to hit our goal of 500,000 calls for today by 3pm Central, unless we get at least 2,000 more people calling for the next hour. Can you call now and continue for as long as you can manage? http://my.barackobama.com/call Thank you. Judith
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04 Nov 2008 03:59 pm

[Zynx]

1. Those are never ever reliable.

[No Elephants]

2. I got two emails from the Obama campaign asking me to make calls. Why didn't you get them?

[jobycom]

3. I suspect not. Might just be a lame attempt to jam phone lines.

I doubt Obama's phone bank would have some inside knowledge that the other pollsters don't have, an I doubt they'd send out emails with such negative info.

Might be a prank, might be an attempt to jam phone lines, might be a genuine call from local campaigns to boost turnout for other elections. Heck, could even be the truth, but I doubt it. What data would they have to contradict all the other polls? Exit poll data is meaningless in that context, election results are not available yet, and the national pollsters would be all over the media this morning if they had detected a last minute change.

[Sulawesi]

4. that makes me nervous too!