Five things you can do to help Barack Obama win on Nov. 4
My dear friend and somewhat fag-hag Karen sent along the following email to me and, well, probably everyone else she knows. She's currently volunteering for the Obama campaign in California and has a lot of ideas of what you can do to help make an impact in this election. DC voters, your vote might not count for much (we always go Democrat) but you can do things in addition to voting to help make a difference this year. Read on. Thanks, Karen! 
1) Go to a swing state - talk to voters and help get out the vote.
Travel a few days, a weekend or both weekends before the election to a swing state to get out the vote.
Choose a swing state and sign up.
If you don't hear back right away it is NOT that they don't need you. They are busy, and probably overwhelmed. Just try calling a field office where you want to travel -- they all need you and they can tell you who to talk to.
2) Take an evening or afternoon to call voters, convince undecided voters or just help get out the vote.
It is hard to believe that Obama supporters in a swing state wouldn't get around to voting, but it absolutely happens. This is why we are encouraging voters to vote early everywhere. There can be long lines at the polls on election day, and everyone needs to be given the chance to vote. Check the campaign Web site for a phone bank or campaign office near you. Every day until the election, these offices are looking for people just like to you make calls.
You can also make calls using the campaign Web site from your home or anywhere you have an Internet connection.
3) Donate Money or Miles.
The campaign will, every day up until the election, need to respond to the increasing false attacks by the Right. Anything you can give will help.
Or, how about buying a ticket or donating miles to fly someone to a swing state that can go? Check out this site that connects volunteers with people who can donate frequent flier miles to get volunteers where they need to be!
4) Are you an Attorney or Law Student? The Campaign Needs your help!
We need your help to ensure that hundreds of thousands of first-time voters, who often have unique needs and are at the greatest risk for disenfranchisement, get counted. Sign up for poll monitoring during early voter periods (now), election day and to help recruit your friends and colleagues who may be interested.
5) Forward this post or e-mail your friends asking for their involvement.
Often we want to, but aren't sure how we can help from where we are. Just by forwarding this post, you might convince someone you know to volunteer for Obama for America.
4 comments:
Everything is feeling good for Obama right now.
What about Prop 8 in California? An article in slate states that Barack Obama can not win California and defeat Prop 8! Are we supposed to hope for a crushing victory for Obama, so that their is voter fatigue in California thus shutting down the number of Hispanics and African-American voters to defeat Prop 8?
Clearly, we don't want to start counting our chickens. We should keep up the momentum.
As for Prop. 8, we posted about this last week.
Right on Michael! This ain't over yet, not by a mile.
2 words: "young voters" or better yet, 3 words and one age bracket: "young voters age 18-29"
The young voter is much more in favor of Obama. By almost a third some figures have shown. Whatever the number, young people offer an incredible and undeniable advantage to Obama and could very lose the race for him if they don't vote.
The polls today look good for Obama but things are contracting a little and it could become much more even in the days ahead. Young voters 18-29 say they are going to vote (as in the polls you are seeing today) but are AGGRAVATINGLY NOTORIOUS for NEVER showing up to vote.
So GO VOTE, especially if you are in a swing state. Skip class, call in sick, take a day off and go vote! Volunteer to drive people to the voting places. Volunteer somewhere. Make a day of it. Especially, you young gays. Celebrate the fact that we have a chance to make a generational change here. I am convinced that at age 40, this is the most important election of my life so far, and I'm not all that into politics in the first place! The last 8 years have been unprecedented. I've never seen anything like it in my life time. We are floundering as a country, things truly are a mess and it is paramount that we change course NOW.
My grandma, the sweetest little lady you would ever meet, lived to be almost 101 years old and NEVER missed an election. Think of what she saw in her lifetime?! She was at Harding's Inaugural address for Pete's sake. In her last presidential election in which she voted, that little bird even voted absentee from her nursing home bed! She couldn't bear the thought of Bush being in the Oval Office. And was none to happy about it either. In her later years, we all knew the drill: have absentee ballots ready for Grandma or we would receive sweet yet assertive reminders to get our act together and get the ballot to her. You just didn't mess around with Grandma when it came to voting.
Need I say more?!
Thing #6: Learn about the Libertarian Party so you can sell it as an alternative to your Republican acquaintances. A vote for Bob Barr is a vote for Obama!
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