Democrats mounted their best get-out-the-vote operation in 10 years.

The foundation of the party's advances had been a highly sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation that ideally took a year to set up.

Thanks to those lists, organized labor's get-out-the-vote operation has been one of the Democrats' biggest assets.

Thus each side goes to great extents to develop strong get-out-the-vote operations to make sure its base supporters get to the polls.

"That said, we continue to have a robust get-out-the-vote operation."

But he said that the party believes it should be allowed to pay for get-out-the-vote operations.

The phone calls, whether made with a recording or by a person, are at the heart of both camps' get-out-the-vote operations.

"Even with very heavy get-out-the-vote operations, it would be unusual if you could get more than 50 percent of them to vote."

And that tells me it's going to come down to a battle of the get-out-the-vote operations.

Officials say half of that would pay for get-out-the-vote operations in the targeted states.