Consider Illinois the ugly step sister. The one presidential candidates are ignoring since it also happens to be Sen. Barack Obama's hometown. And our fair neighbor of Indiana? She's more the popular girl everyone wants to spend time with - at least until Tuesday when the polls open.
So Illinois voters are finding ways to get the attention the need. Whether it volunteers manning phone banks at a Chicago office building or union workers knocking on doors in more popular Hammond, Ind., Chicagoans are trying to help their hometown candidate.
There were so many volunteers at an Obama phone bank in the Loop that some were relegated to working on the floor. With a list of numbers in one hand and a cell phone in the other, workers called voters in Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida to get out the vote.
Obama's campaign modeled their efforts on 50 Chicago wards and expanded it to 50 states to make sure supporters get to the polls Tuesday.
In La Porte, Ind., just 60 miles from Chicago, there are Obama volunteers manning each precinct on election day. The theory - if LaPorte County goes democratic - so might the whole state. And that hasn't happened since 1964.
