Hyde Park Boulevard were blocked off, with Secret Service agents stationed at cement blockades,  checking residents' identification. Ashley Bumpers, a 25-year-old telemarketer on her way home from casting her vote, approached a blockade at Hyde Park Boulevard and Ellis Avenue, with her driver's license in hand. By now, she said, she is used to the presidential hullaballoo. Bumpers said she has lived in the Obamas' neighborhood for six years  -- including one day when she went down to find her car and discovered that it had been towed to another parking spot to make way for presidential security. Bumpers said that while she knows others may be less enthusiastic about this presidential race than they were in 2008, she did not consider staying home on election day this year. "You have to make sure that you vote," she said, "instead of leaving it in somebody else's hands." Besides, she said, "I don't want Romney." Inside his Hyde Park campaign office, President Obama, wearing a white shirt and striped blue tie, greeted about 30 volunteers with hugs and smiles. He then began making surprise calls to Wisconsin campaign volunteers, thanking them for their hard work during the election. Local campaign volunteers joined the President and made calls to battleground state voters, a volunteer said. "The great thing about these campaigns is after all the TV ads, all the fundraising and all the debates and all the electioneering is it comes down to this," Obama said at the office. "One day. And