Obama Adviser on Cap Hill: ‘This Is The Campaign Trail!’

by Walter Alarkon - 10/03/08 2:02 PM ET

It’s just 31 days until the country picks a new president, but everyone, including one Barack Obama campaign staffer, has been focused Friday on the bailout vote.

The Hill’s Jim Mills bumped into Phil Schiliro, the Obama campaign’s congressional liaison, on Capitol Hill. Here’s Mills’s exchange with Schiliro, a former chief of staff for Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.):

Mills: “Hey.. What you doing back here?… Thought you were on the campaign trail.”

Schiliro: “This is the campaign trail!”

Obama himself has gotten into the bailout mix. His calls to Democratic House members resulted in a few more votes for the rescue package, The Hill’s Jared Allen reports.