ODP releases 'How We Did It' numbers

The Ohio Democratic Party released some numbers in the 2008 election that they say explain "how we did it."

Calling the figures "mind-bending metrics," the ODP says they won at all levels because the ODP, President-elect Sen. Barack Obama's Campaign for Change and their coordinated campaign partners worked together in an "unprecedented manner."

The figures say that the Campaign for Change and the ODP registered 105,862 new Ohio voters during the 2008 cycle.

The ODP said that Democrats now have a registration advantage of 986,495 in Ohio, which they called the highest in a generation.

"We placed organizers in all parts of Ohio," the ODP said. "The result: Obama outperformed John Kerry's vote share in 76 of Ohio's 88 counties."

The Dems said that combined, CFC and ODP recruited and engaged more than 60,000 volunteers all across Ohio, with each volunteer assigned to one of 1,200 neighborhoods.

The ODP said they attempted 11,168,942 voter contacts, and completed 3,552,486 conversations with Ohioans at the door or on the phone.

More than 8.7 million flyers or packets of information were delivered to Ohioans, according to the ODP. And the ODP and CFC hired more than 700 people in 24 regions across the state.

During their six day get out the vote effort, the ODP says they filled more than 127,374 volunteer shifts, which they said was 130 percent of their goal. Also, the ODP said they used nearly 700 separate staging locations to coordinate our door-to-door voter contact efforts.

The ODP said that during that time, Ohio Democrats attempted 3,152,000 voter contacts, speaking with 448,471 voters across Ohio, and dropping more than 4.9 million door-hangers.