Vote, damnit!
I have heard people in even the most hotly contested battleground states say "Oh, he's going to win anyway." Not with that attitude. If that attitude is as widespread as it seems to be to me, we are in trouble. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Yes, we can, but we still have to.
If you don't normally vote, your country needs you---we are counting on bringing out people who don't normally vote. And, if you don't normally vote, you owe her! If you've never voted before, this is the time. I mean, you know that this is a historic election. Do you really want to tell your grandkids that you sat this one out?
If you need more motivation (which I can't understand, but I want you to vote) Starbucks will give you free coffee for voting.
For all of those reasons and so many more, VOTE DAMNIT
This is not over. We are not assured of a win, and it can't be close. If we are to get to keep the result, we have to win by a wide margin-- I'd rather we had a wider one than we have. I'm less worried about the so-called Bradley effect than I am about the Diebold effect, and the Republicans' voter suppression tactics, which this year have even included robocalls telling people that Democrats vote tomorrow*. Not to mention the things they're openly doing, like a last-minut blitz of ugly race-baiting negative ads. That's what we're up against, and it's why someone at the first Obama office where I volunteered said to me, and I'm saying to you, "push like you're eighteen points down, no matter what."
The line at my polling place was alarmingly short-- that worries me and I'm going to go make some GOTV calls. You should too. If you're sitting and reading Livejournal, you have time, so do something productive instead. You don't even have to get up, just click here (Obama site), pick a battleground state, and start calling voters from right where you are. If I can spend a total of seven weeks (plus a couple of day trips to Virginia on the weekends) volunteering in battleground states, you can lift a finger to do that.
*The GOP has not admitted to doing that, a claim that I give all the credibility due to a party that, after the last eight years, might as well change its name to the Grand Indicted Party.
If you don't normally vote, your country needs you---we are counting on bringing out people who don't normally vote. And, if you don't normally vote, you owe her! If you've never voted before, this is the time. I mean, you know that this is a historic election. Do you really want to tell your grandkids that you sat this one out?
If you need more motivation (which I can't understand, but I want you to vote) Starbucks will give you free coffee for voting.
For all of those reasons and so many more, VOTE DAMNIT
This is not over. We are not assured of a win, and it can't be close. If we are to get to keep the result, we have to win by a wide margin-- I'd rather we had a wider one than we have. I'm less worried about the so-called Bradley effect than I am about the Diebold effect, and the Republicans' voter suppression tactics, which this year have even included robocalls telling people that Democrats vote tomorrow*. Not to mention the things they're openly doing, like a last-minut blitz of ugly race-baiting negative ads. That's what we're up against, and it's why someone at the first Obama office where I volunteered said to me, and I'm saying to you, "push like you're eighteen points down, no matter what."
The line at my polling place was alarmingly short-- that worries me and I'm going to go make some GOTV calls. You should too. If you're sitting and reading Livejournal, you have time, so do something productive instead. You don't even have to get up, just click here (Obama site), pick a battleground state, and start calling voters from right where you are. If I can spend a total of seven weeks (plus a couple of day trips to Virginia on the weekends) volunteering in battleground states, you can lift a finger to do that.
*The GOP has not admitted to doing that, a claim that I give all the credibility due to a party that, after the last eight years, might as well change its name to the Grand Indicted Party.