SOUTH PORTLAND - I'm writing this on Monday, November 2nd at 2:00 a.m., and will get up early so I will be brief. This weekend has been intense, as myself and Jay Jonah Cash have placed "No on 1" campaign volunteers from New Hampshire, New York, Boston, Vermont and 20 Yale students in a South Portland hotel for our Drive for Equality program. It's inspiring to see the passion as we sense this election's national implications for marriage equality. And we're still on the phones and sending out e-mails, asking folks to make spur-of-the-moment plans to drive up to Maine. Sign up at our website, and we'll stuff as many committed volunteers into hotel rooms as we can. We have a better ground game than our opposition, but it will be close. Literally before going to my bedroom for the night, a new poll came out with us down by 4 points. "We expect there to be almost twice as many voters over 65 as young voters," said the pollsters, "but if that gap narrows so would the vote on Question 1. With a race as close as this, it all comes down to which side can get its people out to the polls. It could go either way depending on who actually shows up to vote." We're working too hard to lose this ...
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