Campaign condo crisis

The night before we are to do our last get-out-the-vote push a problem arises. Edgewater, also called “the Gold Coast,” where I am staying, is filled with high-rise condominiums and apartment buildings, most secured with passkeys. In some, there’s a guard at a desk. A visitor can’t get in without being admitted by a resident.
The Lakeshore Obama office plans to go door to door in the wards it covers, which includes the Gold Coast. And includes the condos.
The canvassers are expected to get into the high rises and knock on doors. My hosts, Ben and Monica, are sure this is a Bad Idea. Residents expect privacy and security, Ben tells me. Example: Some flyers for Maria’s Pizza appeared on doorsteps in their building Wednesday, which led to the building manager calling Maria’s and chewing them out.
If strange people appear in condo hallways and knock on doors, someone is going to call the police, and the Obama campaign will have a problem.
Ben thinks it’s a case of the campaign not thinking things through. While I am also inclined to blame stupidity rather than conspiracy, I’m cynical enough to believe that someone, somewhere in the campaign hierarchy, has thought about this, and decided that the risk is worth the reward of getting out more voters.
Last night Monica called the Obama office and her local city councilwoman—who also lives in a high rise—and things are happening. Stay tuned.