Nineteen year old Kayla Rodriguez displays a broad smile to anyone who enters Casa Obama. Rodriguez, a mass communications student, has been on the job for just over a week, at this West Tampa Obama campaign office set up specifically to target Latino and minority voters.

Kayla Rodriguez, 19 volunteers at West Tampa Library

"Would you like a badge or a poster?" she asks a couple who just arrived.

"Yes," they nod, and in an instant...