Hang Tough, Work for Change
Oct. 18th, 2008 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malsperanzaOK, My Friends, now comes the tough bit. Remember that races always tightenin the final 2 weeks.
After the RNC, when Palin provided a little bump in the polls for the GOP one of the shortest bumps ever) half my friends went into a tailspin and declared defeat. That's a typical Dem reaction to a hard fight, and I have no patience with it.
So folks, now's the time: call or email the Obama campaign and volunteer to make phone calls. Talk to your neighbors and colleagues. From here on in, the point is not so much to help undecided voters but to make sure that Obama supporters vote on Nov. 4.
Flist folks on college campuses: This means you especially! New registrants sometimes get cold feet on election day. They may feel intimidated or embarrassed not to know how voting works. If you have friends, colleagues, or fellow students who are new voters, stay in touch with them. Suggest a Voting Line party, or just offer to go with them to the polls. Check online and find your precinct location. If this is your first time voting and you have any questions, post here anonymously and I'll answer or help you get the answer.
Get Out The Vote (GOTV) begins now.
From here:
"There have already been numerous lawsuits filed by the state Republican Parties challenging thousands of newly registered voters, most of whom are Democrats. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday against a GOP lawsuit trying to disqualify 200,000 new voters in Ohio whose voter registration data does not agree with other state data bases (like the examples above). In a Montana case, case a federal judge ruled that the Republicans had filed the case "with the express intent to disenfranchise voters."
In some cases it is the Democrats going to court to prevent a (usually Republican) secretary of state from purging eligible voters. In other words, attempting to disenfranchise voters has become just another campaign tactic. It is virtually always the Republicans trying to purge (new) voters because so the new voters are so heavily weighted towards the Democrats. If they can eliminate 100,000 voters, they will probably get rid of 80,000 Democrats and 20,000 Republicans, which is clearly worth the effort."
This is what democracy looks like to the GOP. Don't let them get away with it:
After the RNC, when Palin provided a little bump in the polls for the GOP one of the shortest bumps ever) half my friends went into a tailspin and declared defeat. That's a typical Dem reaction to a hard fight, and I have no patience with it.
So folks, now's the time: call or email the Obama campaign and volunteer to make phone calls. Talk to your neighbors and colleagues. From here on in, the point is not so much to help undecided voters but to make sure that Obama supporters vote on Nov. 4.
Flist folks on college campuses: This means you especially! New registrants sometimes get cold feet on election day. They may feel intimidated or embarrassed not to know how voting works. If you have friends, colleagues, or fellow students who are new voters, stay in touch with them. Suggest a Voting Line party, or just offer to go with them to the polls. Check online and find your precinct location. If this is your first time voting and you have any questions, post here anonymously and I'll answer or help you get the answer.
Get Out The Vote (GOTV) begins now.
From here:
"There have already been numerous lawsuits filed by the state Republican Parties challenging thousands of newly registered voters, most of whom are Democrats. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday against a GOP lawsuit trying to disqualify 200,000 new voters in Ohio whose voter registration data does not agree with other state data bases (like the examples above). In a Montana case, case a federal judge ruled that the Republicans had filed the case "with the express intent to disenfranchise voters."
In some cases it is the Democrats going to court to prevent a (usually Republican) secretary of state from purging eligible voters. In other words, attempting to disenfranchise voters has become just another campaign tactic. It is virtually always the Republicans trying to purge (new) voters because so the new voters are so heavily weighted towards the Democrats. If they can eliminate 100,000 voters, they will probably get rid of 80,000 Democrats and 20,000 Republicans, which is clearly worth the effort."
This is what democracy looks like to the GOP. Don't let them get away with it:
