Back at her campaign headquarters, dozens of workers, mostly young men, scurry around, preparing more campaign posters.
Richard McGrath, a spokesman for the James campaign, said hundreds of workers would use telephones and vans to take supporters to the polls.
The dissolute youth transformed it into a sensationalist paper, soon attracting new readers with his bold campaigning on behalf of workers, immigrants and the Democratic party.
"Do you understand how frightening it is to a campaign and a bunch of campaign workers and a candidate that have raised $100 million, to have somebody even with them, who's spending, whatever it is, a third, or a tenth?" Mr. Edwards said of the Obama campaign.
The nerve center is a sprawling room filled with hundreds of campaign workers, most of them under 25, many sitting under their college pennants.
Donnie Fowler, a political aide, tapped dozens of campaign workers, many of them backpack-toting "kids," to fly to Tallahassee to help monitor the automatic machine recount Florida mandated in close elections.
"These reforms are part of a wider campaign to get rid of workers' basic rights at work.
Labor provided millions of dollars in campaign cash and hundreds of workers for many successful challengers in the last election in 2007.
As well as lobbying for change, the organisation encourages grassroots campaigning and mobilises thousands of workers to tell their own stories.
Mostly correspondence with the Rev. Tom P. Jimison, Methodist minister and chaplain for the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, concerning Bailey's 1924 gubernatorial campaign and the interests of workers.
Dan Bartlett, a campaign spokesman, said a ragged group of campaign workers who returned today from Florida compared their departure to "pulling off the roof of an embassy".
