The bad:

Jonah,
It’s much the same story here in Wisconsin. I’m a volunteer for B/C, but I’ve seen no real improvement in our GOTV effort. We’ve been making more calls (in person and automated), but that’s the extent of the effort. And Kerry ads outnumber ours by a 2-1 margin. IMO, Wisconsin is now lost.

The good:

Jonah,
My girlfriend, an acquaintance, and I (all Chicagoans) went up to Milwaukee to help out. First, we met George P. Bush and his wife (extremely nice) at a rally in an Hispanic neighborhood (the chant “Viva Bush!” still rings in my head) and then we went out to West Allis. The energy was insane in the campaign office. One of the girls there told us that many were coming to help from Illinois, including 60 students from Wheaton College, and large groups from Texas, Alabama, Missouri and even California. I came away that night very confident in that area of Wisconsin. We were well accepted in the ward we hit up door to door and felt at home sitting at a micro-brewery in town afterwards, still donning our Bush Cheney stickers and buttons. Then as we approached Chicago on our journey home, the stickers came off and our political masks came back on, but I think the three of us will strongly agree that Wisconsin should be going to W. tomorrow.