The team Barack Obama has put together ran a brilliant yet complex on-the-ground campaign with a razor-like efficiency. From the primaries, to the convention, to the final stretch of the general campaign, the team is flush with money and excited volunteers ready to get out the vote of the people they’ve registered this past year.

It will be then that the full magnitude of what they have achieved will become evident. The astonishing fundraising effort has empowered the excellent grassroots organizers to operate door-to-door across the country and provide a presence for Obama’s image and message.

And by being able to maintain local offices across the country, and being continually able to advertise and place his temperament and manner in front of people in their homes, Obama is able to demonstrate his likeability and make folks more and more comfortable with putting this very nice and very smart young guy to work on solving their problems and the problems of the nation.

And if there was any doubt as to the magnitude of the problems the nation faces, they were erased by two interesting comments Obama made speaking in Florida recently. One was thoughtfully put, “Power concedes nothing without a fight.” Said almost as an aside, it suggested a pleasant memory, perhaps his mother quoting him the words of the former slave and writer/orator Frederick Douglass.

And then a moment later, he said forcefully to the huge multiracial crowd that they would be “Not distracted. Not hoodwinked. Not bamboozled. Not this time.” In a cadence that felt in perfect rhythm with Malcolm X saying, “You’ve been misled. You’ve been had. You’ve been took,” in his famous Ballot or the Bullet speech.

So here was Barack Obama, two weeks away from Election Day in the key state of Florida, and he was comfortable enough with the voters that he was able to put out the universal messages of these African-American freedom fighters; that there are forces at work that have to be fought against and that the people will not be tricked or divided. It was a message that could just as easily have come from the Founding Fathers trying to free the 13 colonies from England when they said, “United we stand.” It is a message that the United States appears finally ready to hear.