Via One Man and from the Obama blogwe see that Melissa Bean’s campaign against Congressman Crane has just received a nice little boost:

At the request of the Democratic Party, we are re-directing our Chicago area volunteers who were planning on going to Wisconsin this weekend. We are asking them instead to help staff the John Kerry phonebank in Buffalo Grove and canvass with the Melissa Bean campaign in the 10th Congressional District.

The Kerry phonebank is the largest in the nation(!) with 400 phone lines for volunteers to help make calls to swing states in the Midwest.

It appears that the Associated Press has picked up the story as well.

[Obama] is sending two busloads of volunteers to help Crane’s challenger, Melissa Bean, a 42-year-old technology consultant who hopes to unseat Crane, 73, an icon to the nation’s conservatives who has served in the House for 35 years.

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