President Obama.

New Yorkers cast their ballots for the pro-America candidate, Barack Obama. CNN currently projects the state at 74% pro-freedom, 26% McBush. Probably going to tighten a little bit, but not by that much.

Congratulations, New York. Once again, you've done your duty to the country.

You really, really have to hand it Barack Obama's New York team: their communications have been little short of brilliant. Witness this:

Here's where to go: www,barackobama.com/dayoff. If you can afford it, they need about eight million volunteers on Election Day. But just think of how awesome telling your grandkids about how you helped elect Obama will be.

We're less than twenty-four hours from opening the polling places. Here is where things stand at this writing.

Electoralvote.com's final projection of the Electoral College looks like this (the projection on 538.com is roughly the same):

Note the weakness evident in the 'Barely republican' states; when Georgia, Montana, Indiana and North Dakota barely have a lead for McCain, things look very gloomy for the other side.

Gallup's final poll estimates Obama 55%, McCain 44%.

The final Gallup 2008 pre-election poll -- based on Oct. 31-Nov. 2 Gallup Poll Daily tracking -- shows Barack Obama with a 53% to 42% advantage over John McCain among likely voters. When undecided voters are allocated proportionately to the two candidates to better approximate the actual vote, the estimate becomes 55% for Obama to 44% for McCain.

The trend data clearly show Obama ending the campaign with an upward movement in support, with eight to 11 percentage point leads among likely voters in Gallup's last four reports of data extending back to Oct. 28. Obama's final leads among both registered voters and likely voters are the largest of the campaign.

Here's the corresponding graph.

A lot of things could still go wrong. Young voters could fail to materialize, the eight million volunteers Obama is relying on tomorrow could fail to show up. But barring satanic intervention, the odds favor a Democratic sweep tomorrow.

I dropped by the Obama office on Broadway today to soak up some of the atmosphere. The place is electric; filled with hundreds - no exaggeration - of volunteers, it's busy as a beehive on steroids. One of several statewide locations, the New York City office is the largest of a network of offices that will make three million calls before Tuesday. The Obama campaign isn't paying anyone to make phone calls - the entire effort depends on volunteers. Volunteers like you. Plus, odds are, you'll run into some interesting people; Sarah Jessica Parker was there on Thursday, today, they had Congressman Anthony Weiner, City Comptroller Bill Thompson (but not Michael Bloomberg, hint, hint), Tennis Star John McEnroe, and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary.

Sarah Jessica Parker (Thursday)

State Director Dave Pollak

The front desk

Half of one gigantic room, one of several, filled with volunteers calling away as if the election depended on them. Which it does.

Look exciting? Be a part of it. Go here and find your local phone bank - they've been set up all over the state.

Interview conducted by the New York blogs.

Q: Can you explain to us what the state director does?

The State Director is the quarterback of the campaign in NY. I help coordinate the political, field, communications and logistics of the campaign. I am also the all-around trouble shooter. As problems arise, I can direct certain parts of the team to address matters. The State Director assists with fundraising, is a spokesperson for the campaign… and reaches out to Elected Officials and other important constituencies.

Q: What are your top goals?

We want to have a historic victory for Senator Obama in NY. We want to contribute to the swing-states – where this race will be won or lost. We want to make sure that people realize that Senator Obama’s message of change is transmitted all across the State.

Q: Do you see a down-ballot effect from Obama’s overwhelming popularity in this state?

Yes, we know that many first-time voters will be coming out to the polls. We anticipate record turnout. This should have a coattail effect on close elections farther down the ballot.

Q: What can people who don’t want to or can’t travel to a swing state do here in New York?

For the first time, all the Get-Out-The-Vote phonecalls in battleground states will be made by volunteers. There are no paid phonebanks in the Obama campaign. Therefore, big states like California, Texas, Illinois and New York are responsible for turning out voters in states like Florida, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina – to name a few.

In New York, we need to make nearly 3 million phonecalls in the final four days of this campaign. This means that volunteers in New York who are unable to travel to a swing state can have an impact like never before.

We have large phonebank locations set up all over the state. Check out our website at: http://ny.barackobama.com/nylastcall to find a location near you!

Q: Some final words for your volunteers?

This is it people... this is when the Presidential race will be decided. With many battleground states too close to call… this race will be won by whichever side gets more of its voters to the polls.

Every Barack Obama supporter in NY needs to dig deep and commit as much time as possible to calling battleground state voters and get them to the polls.

We need you to join us. Barack Obama needs your help to win.
Please commit a day or two (or four)… and spread the word to ALL your friends. Reach out to all your networks; family, friends, Facebook, alumni groups – we need you to reach EVERYONE!

Thank you for your time, Dave. Now let's go out and win this thing.

The last four days are upon us. The Obama campaign needs your help, and guess what? You cann help without having to travel to states that end in vowels.

Go to the Obama web site to sign up for phonebanking to swing states, and be a part of history.

Do you want to wake up on Wednesday and hear "President-elect John McCain"? No? Then please, do your part.

Nielsen:

The Obama-mercial was fairly highly rated across the three broadcast networks (CBS, Fox and NBC) in the early metered market numbers. Between the three networks it scored an impressive combined 17.8/29 (household rating/share).

Update: the Obama ad pulled 26.4 million between the three networks in the Nielsen fast national overnight data. NBC had 9.85 million with a 3.0/8 (rating/share) among 18-49 year olds. CBS was next with 8.65 million and an older skewing 2.3/6 among 18-49 year olds. Fox was third in total viewers for the Obama ad with 7.92 million, but fared better than CBS with younger viewers pulling a 2.8/8 among 18-49 year olds.

And here it is again:

In five days, we vote.

We've been flogging the idea of traveling to swing states, but there are always people who can't do that. Maybe you can't travel for health reasons, for job reasons, family, the list of hindrances is endless.

Well, fret not: you can help out in swing states from the comfort of your couch. Go to the Obama website, and sign up for the final four days phone banking push.

New Yorkers have probably made millions of phone calls into swing states. we can make a few million more. And, when this is all over and we finally move this country into a new era, one with dominant Democratic majorities and a crushed right wing, don't you want to feel that you did everything possible to help make that happen?