Packed wall to wall and out the door at a new presidential campaign office in Gary, hundreds of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's supporters and volunteers mobilized Saturday morning.

They hope to pack the voters into the polls during Indiana's primary May 6, as well.

"We've got this title that Gary people don't vote," Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said to the crowd. "It's going to be eliminated because Gary is going to register more people than have ever registered before."

During Indiana's primary, Gary will be a name on the lips of newscasters on CNN, he said.

"They are going to point at Indiana and say Hillary Clinton is leading by one point but Gary ain't come in yet," Clay said.

The campaign opened 11 new offices across Indiana on Saturday including the one at 4405 W. Fifth St.

Obama, D-Ill., supports funding programs that would increase cops on the streets and fight poverty, Clay said.

"We have a lot of poverty in Gary," he said. "The United States of America cannot be what it ought to be unless Gary is what it ought to be. I think Barack Obama is the man that can make it happen."

Candace Jones, 16, and her mother, India Jones, 35, of Hammond, set out to register voters Saturday. This was their first campaign registering people, India Jones said. In the past week, they've spent hours outside in the cold signing people up, she said. Everyone seems so excited by Obama's message of change, she said.

"I think Hillary is so divisive," she said. "She has good intentions but I believe if she's elected she'll be too busy fighting to get anything done."

Volunteer Andre Cheairs has been involved with other campaigns, but said he'd never seen such a diverse crowd turn out from Gary with residents across genders, socioeconomic classes, ages and races.

"People want change," he said, adding that it's about "change for my grandkids and all people."