Walking down the wood-paneled hallway, Grodd gestures to spacious rooms branching off. The press room will be over there, the staff offices will be here. When the Bradley campaign moves its headquarters from Concord, N.H., this place will be filled with more than 100 staffers.
When he started earlier this summer in Concord, Grodd could count the paid staff on one hand. His first job was to buy chairs. He was making campaign calls from a pay phone.
As the campaign headquarters fills its rooms, Bradley campaigners on campuses across the country are slowly pulling in volunteers.
At Harvard, Students for Gore has a wide base of support, with 140 students expressing support and 40 to 50 willing to actively volunteer.
But as Bradley's presidential chances have risen, so has student support for Harvard Students for Bill Bradley.
Early Saturday morning, about 10 Bradley supporters gathered in front of Johnston Gate to head up to New Hampshire for that grassroots campaigning essential--canvassing.
"In the end, you're going to have a lot of doors shut in your face," Luke P. McLoughlin '00, the main campus organizer for Bradley, said to the handful of students gathered around him in the overcast weather.
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