
PRINCETON – Tricia Mueller, state director for the Obama campaign, emerges from her office at headquarters here off Route 1 , threading her way between campaign workers to the front door.
“I’m really proud of what we’ve done, looking at the poll numbers, but we’re running as though we’re ten points behind,” says Mueller, nursing an early morning coffee. The campaign has 6,000 people in the streets statewide, she says, and they’re in evidence here in the Princeton area, brandishing Obama for America signs and waving at commuters. Volunteers take calls at a massive phone bank pushed against the front door. There’s evidently a problem in Montgomery Township. Three machines are down. Someone puts out an order to get one of the campaign’s lawyers on the case. Over the course of the last three days leading up to Election Day, Mueller says the campaign dispatched over 2,000 New Jerseyans to Pennsylvania to help stir volunteers. Phone calls out of headquarters have targeted New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
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