When I got Nse Uffat on the phone the other morning, she was in the back of a Chevy

Tahoe that she had been driving back and forth all over Georgia.

Because these runoff elections this week, they're sort of her Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl, the World Cup, right? And like, the coming out Catillion. That's a very southern reference, by the way.

Ence runs the New Georgia Project, the nonprofit that's worked to register black and brown communities.

Women, young people.

They've gotten a lot of credit for Joe Biden's presidential victory here.

And now, Ensa is going for a three-peat, working to secure wins for Democratic Senate candidates,

Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff.

We spent the day in Savannah, Georgia Georgia yesterday, where we knocked on our two

millionth door for this cycle. Your two millionth for like since, since when? Since Labor Day.

Oh, that's a lot of doors. Yeah. that's a lot of doors.

Yeah, it's a lot of doors.

And I should say that 1.6, 1.7 million of those have happened since the November 5th general election.

Enze quantifies her work in what she calls touches, phone calls, text messages, door knocks.

But her group also does birthday parties for high schoolers who are turning 18, getting them registered.

They sponsor concerts and organize entertainers to perform for people in line at the polls.

We need to try to inject some joy to act as a counterbalance to the bullshit, quite frankly, that people have to endure.

It's also kind of a throwback.

I remember reading about elections being a big deal, you know, 100, 150 years ago where people would

put on their best outfits, I mean, white people, let it be clear, would put on their best outfits

and go into the center of town and, like, have, you know, bring a picnic basket and, like, it was a thing.

...