New York City has the onus of making 2,000,000 phone calls to battleground states by the time the polls close on Tuesday. The New York for Obama has a "New York Last Call" action alert that has been going on since Friday.

Babysitting in the city is rather expensive. So to do my bit, I brought them with me to phonebank at the Teamsters' HQ :

Teamsters Local 237
216 West 14th St.
btwn 7th and 8th Aves
New York, NY 10011
Sun noon-9pm
Mon 10am-9pm
Election Day 9am-9pm

If you are in the 14th Street area, send in your RSVP.

The kids helped with picking up all the callers' paperwork and taking it to "the lady with the computer", so she could process the information on their central database. They also streamed some videos and did some interviews. You can see the fruit of their labor at the culturekitchen channel on Qik.com.

The kids actually were helpful and they ended up training a couple of kids who came in exactly as we were leaving. So if you have kids ages 8 and up, taken them with you to volunteer. There's plenty for them to do.

FYI : Uma Thurman, Matthew Broderick, Lisa Loeb, Lisa Edelstein all phone-banking today. Check it out at The Daily Gotham.

Also, if you can't make it to any of the phonebanking locations they have across the site and boroughs, and you have an iPhone, you can download the Obama Phone Banking iPhone application and do it from the comfort of your home (don't do it from the office because it will get you into trouble with the boss).

Tomorrow I'll spend all morning at the Obama HQ. See you there!