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Michael Bumgarner says he's never campaigned for a political cause before, but his strong opposition to same-sex marriage has prompted him to join thousands of volunteers going door-to-door in support of a ballot initiative that would ban gay nuptuals in California.

Grey's Anatomy star T.R. Knight spent Election Day volunteering for No on 8, standing 100 feet away from poling places handing out palm cards and urging people to vote against the same-sex marriage ban. Here he recounts the well-wishers who brought cookies and cheered from cars and the Prop. 8 supporters who yelled and spat -- one even got violent. But Knight says all he ultimately felt was sadness when Prop. 8 passed.

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to mend rifts within the party on Friday after their combative primary fight, heaping praise on each other as they campaigned together in a town chosen for the symbolism of its name -- Unity. Clinton, once considered the inevitable Democratic nominee, praised her former rival for ''his grace and his grit'' and said John McCain and the Republican Party had probably hoped the two Democrats would not join forces against them in the November election. A day after introducing Obama to some of her top financial backers, Clinton encouraged her supporters to join with his ''to create an unstoppable force for change we can all believe in,'' urging those who had backed her not to vote Republican.