Quantifying The Enthusiasm For Sarah Palin

The huge crowds Gov. Sarah Palin attracts are one thing, but enthusiasm about the Alaska governor has produced an outpouring of volunteers for the GOP's get-out-the-vote program.

According to a Republican official, countywide, seven to ten times as many new volunteers are signing to help as compared to the same days a month ago.

The day McCain announced the pick, and the Wednesday and Thursday of the convention, the numbers were through the roof, dwarfing the number of new volunteer sign-ups during that same period in 2004.

That's more people that GOP field planners assumed they'd have, so in some areas, they're scrambling to figure out what to do with them all.