How a Campaign Office Works

Here is a little insight into how a typical campaign oiffice works. A typical Obama campaign office, that is. :)
The Doylestown office is located in the middle of town on the first floor of a rented house, across from the County Courthouse, in case you are in the neighborhood. :)
The office is run by of a core group of paid 'staffers' who are complemented by a small group of full-time volunteers and a revolving group of part-time volunteers.
A large percentage of the money contributed to the Obama Campaign is used to 'staff' the ground game acrosss the country. The Doylestown office has 6-7 paid 'staffers' and five full time volunteers, including Neil, a former ad agency CFO, Marv, a successful book author and granddad, Gene, a sailor from CT, Rob, a recent law school graduate and me.
The paid staffers and full-time volunteers work together to recruit and train a steady stream of part-time volunteers who show up at the office every day.
The most important task of the office is to engage voters. We do this via telephone and door-to-door canvassing. There is a ton of data collecting and inputting as well. Every voter contact results in a data entry task.
All in all, the operation is very impressive. It is amazing to witness what a group of wildly disparate people can do when they are united by a common cause.
Got to go now. Rob, the recent law school grad, just told me that a French film crew is going to be in the office this morning to film a day in the life of an Obama Campaign office for French TV.
See ya,
Grant