1.   But he paid for phone banks, mailings, transportation and registration fees for his straw poll supporters.

2.   Already, his fund-raising phone bank is working seven days a week.

3.   American politics used to be a participatory sport, not a spectator sport, and it was conducted by getting people to hold signs and sit in phone banks.

4.   An array of groups on both sides of the issue were also running phone banks and flooding Congress with e-mail and letters.

5.   And his own campaign efforts are being supplemented by mailings, phone banks and radio ads by an array of conservative groups bitterly opposed to McCain.

6.   And it set up phone banks to contact hundreds of Texas, urging them to write New Mexico officials in support of track-site casino gambling.

7.   Another significant part of the campaign battle plan is the hundreds of volunteers who help run phone banks, distribute leaflets and organize rallies.

8.   Asian-Americans are working phone banks and banging on doors.

9.   At a phone bank in Oakland on Monday night, one of dozens in the state, Democrats called elderly party regulars to help get out the vote.

10.   At Chapman University in Orange, Calif., political science students decided to help the local American Red Cross chapter with a phone bank for refugee aid.