Until you see it, it is impossible to imagine...

[IndyOp]

Today the Obama campaign announced:

Sen. Barack Obama is bringing some star power to Indiana to encourage Hoosiers to register to vote.

Singer Dave Matthews, and his long-time collaborator Tim Reynolds, will perform in a free concert Sunday in Assembly Hall at Indiana University.

The deadline to register to vote is Monday.

The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are free to anyone with Indiana identification or an in-state student identification, and can be obtained at Obama headquarters in Bloomington, Indianapolis and Purdue.

So, tonight, after registering voters at my local library, I drove home and there was a HUGE line outside the campaign headquarters. While students were waiting in line to get tickets, Obama volunteers were working to register them to vote. I pulled over to offer my assistance and wound up registering only about 8 people -- "IU Students for Obama" already had the situation well under control.

Sunday night at the concert they will register thousands and thousands more...

I've been sitting at the local library evenings and weekends for WEEKS and I hope I'll hit 400 registrations by Sunday night. Dave Matthews comes to town to perform one concert and the campaign will register 50 times that many people.

Damned impressive.

[Kukesa]

1. Good work! And "damned impressive" as well.

Thanks for spending all that time at the library, and I hope you were able to get tickets for Dave Matthews!

O8)

[IndyOp]

2. I might volunteer to help register voters at the Matthews event, but I'll

be doing just that all day Saturday and Sunday at the library, so I'll hold off on volunteering for the concert until I see the campaign issue an all-points bulletin asking for volunteers. They will have ALL of the college-aged volunteers at the concert I am sure. ;-)

:hi:

[IndyOp]

3. I walked back by this morning at 8:00 a.m. -- and the line had formed again!

More tickets, more, more! More voter registration, too.

:D

[K Gardner]

4. Kudos to you, IndyOP.. and EVERY vote matters ! Thanks for the reports !