While waiting for actress Kate Walsh to arrive at the University of Texas Barack Obama campaign office, Max Kennedy encouraged volunteers and students to call Texas voters and ask them to vote and caucus for the Illinois Senator.

Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, even joined in on the effort:

“The grassroots campaign that I have seen set up all over the state of Texas has never been duplicated anywhere,” Kennedy told the crowd of students and volunteers at the UT campaign office.

“This is an absolutely, unbelievably incredible effort, all done by people who have never done this before. Everybody in this room, the chief organizers here, are all under 30 years of age. The thing is, though, that this plan is developed - it’s clear what we need now is to execute it.”

Kate Walsh also emphasized the importance of volunteering in the last few hours before March 4.”

We have a chance now to elect a new guy, and a guy who truly I think represents the face of America today,” she said. “He eclipses race, he eclipses gender, he is a true public servant and a leader.

“I can’t stress enough, though, just how imperative it is to get everybody out there, do everything you can, embarrass yourself, humiliate yourself, go out there, go door-to-door, get on the phone, be uncomfortable. And actually, I think you’re going to get a lot more positive response that anybody can anticipate.”

Kate Walsh and Max Kennedy

Sean Quirk, an 18-year-old volunteer and freshman political science major at UC San Diego, said he is amazed by what he has seen throughout the Obama volunteer network.

“What really inspired me is seeing the diversity of volunteers,” Quirk said. “I’ve worked with people I wouldn’t have come in contact with otherwise. We are all coming together, every age, race and sexual orientation. If Obama’s able to do that with volunteers, think of what he can do for our country.”

Latino actor and comedian Richard Montoya also spoke to volunteers about Obama’s ability to create racial unity in young people.

“There [are] some deep-seated divisions and we gotta work really hard,” Montoya said.

“The good news is that this generation, your age, is gonna change all that … it’s not a race struggle, it’s a generational struggle,” he explained. “That’s what we’re finding. There’s some old fogies in the diners that we’ve been talking to that just will not budge - fine. But where’s your grandson, where’s your granddaughter? Let us talk to them.”