Before I am accused (falsely) of biased reporting, let me say I was not expecting to report such a contrasting picture of Nashville's dueling campaigns.  At roughly 2:30 PM I visited the McCain headquarters in Nashville only to find four or five senior citizen ladies volunteering.  They told me they might be closing shop soon.  There was no phone banking at that time and no other activity.  Perhaps it had been crowded earlier in the day and I missed all the energy.  At 4 PM I visited Nashville's Obama headquarters and the contrast could not have been more stark.  I found a very large room packed full of hundreds of volunteers phone banking, driving people to the (not very crowded) polls, and organizing neighborhood canvassing.  The headquarters is situated in a strip mall with a large parking lot, and there was not a space to be found.  Cars and trucks were passing by honking their horns incessantly.  It is almost certain that McCain will win Tennessee, but Nashville and Davidson County often vote Democratic.   If these contrasting campaigns are any indication, they will today, too.

Obama's Nashville campaign headquarters was still very busy at 4 PM.

I spoke with Obama volunteer, Adrienne Black, who told me that 1,200 people had passed through to volunteer or visit by 4 PM.  There were dozens of people still floating in at that time.  I also spoke with Lynda McFayden-Ketchum, a phone banking supervisor.  She told me that they started calling at 7:30 AM and remained steady throughout the day.  McFayden-Ketchum told me that callers were focusing half of their calls in Tennessee and half of them in battleground states.  She told me that people would probably continue calling until almost 9 PM Central Time here in Nashville, because of several battleground western battleground states.

Another view from the Obama headquarters in Nashville.

I spoke briefly with one of the hundreds of volunteers, Angelique Fisher.  She had spent the day driving voters to the polls.  I asked her what motivated her to volunteer for the Obama campaign and she told me that she “saw his [DNC Keynote] speech in 2004 and thought ‘when can he run for President?’”