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The President's campaign has a great idea, particularly for those of you with cell phones. You can call registered voters in swing states, reminding them to come out and vote for President Bush. I'll be calling 15 Floridians today on my lunch break and 15 more voters in Swing States tomorrow. Sign up as a volunteer and do something to move this campaign forward.

...A Clinton-inspired path for GOP The inspiration for the Colorado Republicans' plan to win: Hillary Rodham Clinton. That's right. The U.S. senator from New York - a favorite target for conservatives - created the get-out-the-vote plan that Colorado Republicans mimicked with great success in 2002. Sean Tonner, the campaign operative for U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard that year and the campaign manager for Pete Coors this year, adapted Clinton's plan for turning out the vote. Allard scored a solid victory despite polls suggesting he was lagging behind Democrat Tom Strickland. With the Clinton plan in hand, Tonner created a military-style operation...

MILWAUKEE - The superintendent of Milwaukee schools halted a get-out-the-vote program involving students after complaints were raised about its link to a pro-Kerry organization. Superintendent William Andrekopoulos acted late Wednesday, citing a policy that prohibits the district from being a political advocate. His decision came a day after Republicans accused Democrats of using the students for political gain because the program was organized by the Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund, whose parent organization endorsed Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) for president. Students at 33 Milwaukee schools called voters and went door to door in minority neighborhoods and areas with...

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - A busload of John Kerry supporters from Washington, D.C., was waving Kerry/Edwards placards Saturday in Penn Square. Teams of volunteers from a Democrat-leaning national organization are knocking on doors in the city. And some voters can expect to find a soap opera star on their front steps Monday, asking them to vote for President George W. Bush and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. With voter registration at a close for the Nov. 2 election, the political parties are marshaling hundreds of volunteers for the next step in the election game: voter contact and voter turnout. Get-out-the-vote, or...

WEST PALM BEACH, United States (AFP) - George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) will duel for votes in Florida, where early polling opens in a deadlocked race soured by memories of the 2000 election debacle. The rivals will both be in the southern state, hoping to whip up enthusiasm among voters who can be among the first in the United States to make their choice in an early balloting system for the November 2 election. Bush owes his presidency to the 537 vote margin he eked out in Florida over Democrat Al Gore (news -...

WEST ALLIS, Wis. _ For the guys in Fire Station House No. 2's sun-splashed day room, Rick Gale was characteristically blunt. "At the end of the day, this guy (President Bush) hasn't been there for firefighters," said Gale, a strapping 6-foot-3 fireman from this blue-collar Milwaukee suburb and president of the 3,000-member Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin. His union, the International Association of Fire Fighters, was the first labor group _ and one of few initially _ to endorse Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and lately he has been visiting station houses such as this one in addition to spending hours...

In this year's presidential election, there's no mystery about which candidate will carry the city of St. Louis. The only unknown is how many city Democrats will show up at the polls. It's the volume that counts. A huge St. Louis margin for Democratic Sen. John Kerry - say, an edge of 90,000 votes or more - could help him eke out a win in Missouri, political experts say. If the city's overwhelmingly Democratic turnout is low, he's likely toast. The Republican dream is to keep Kerry's margin below 70,000 votes. The Democratic need for a large city turnout is...

WASHINGTON -- A new strategy to expand the black vote, primarily in swing states, has triggered infighting among black and white Democratic activists over money, turf and political priorities. The plan, launched by "527" groups led by powerful white Democrats, has angered Jesse Jackson and other black leaders who say they have been bypassed and denied funds. "Of black organizations that have been traditionally responsible for increasing voter registration and turnout, none have been empowered to determine priorities for the resources," Jackson said. "We know what to do and how to do it. We've done it before. It's insulting that...

(AP) — Voter registration drives aimed at young people are turning 18- to 24-year-olds into an important variable in the presidential election, especially in decisive battleground states such as Michigan — where nearly 100,000 young people have registered in recent months — and Wisconsin, where the numbers are even higher.They are the nation's newest swing voters, with polls showing their support for the major candidates has vacillated in recent months. A Harvard University poll found that, in a five-month period, 19 percent of young potential voters changed their minds about whom they'd support."It's a big population of fluid voters, and...

National Women's Election Action Day On Saturday, September 18th, thousands of volunteers will kick off National Women’s Election Action Day.Women and men will take to the streets to register, recruit, educate, and mobilize voters in battleground states to ensure that women count and are counted in this election. Volunteers will participate in voter contact activities such as phone banking, door-to-door canvassing, campus organizing, activist trainings, and registering voters.To sign up for activities, click on the state where you would like to participate on the map below or see the list of kick-off events below the map. Please bookmark this page and...

The AFL-CIO's $45 million effort to unseat President Bush is driven by an issue that unions care passionately about, but many voters have never heard of: the makeup of the National Labor Relations Board. Labor leaders say that in recent months the current board has made hard-hitting decisions that favor employers. And a Bush appointment last December increased to three the number of Republicans on the five-member NLRB, a change unions say could profoundly hurt organized workers for years. Since then, two major board decisions, on graduate students and nonunion workers' rights, have been the focus of criticism from labor...

First and foremost, all these polls are driving me nuts. It is early and overdone, I do think watching the trends is interesting. The biggest concern I have is watching people get caught up in the likely vs Registered issue. While normally Likely is a better guage, I believe that the Dems will do anything to get first time voters to the polls, so the Registered and to a lesser degree Adult polls may not be as innacurate as we tend to think. This race I believe will be all turnout based, there is 8-15% of people who may be...

WASHINGTON – To thunderous applause, chants of “four more years,” and at least two dozen standing ovations, President Bush on Tuesday addressed the closing session of the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The crowd of about 5,000 – which included hundreds of students – was in a distinctly pro-Bush frame of mind even before the president made his appearance at the Washington Convention Center. The very mention of Bush’s name or the sight of his image on video screens was enough to prompt sustained cheers. When Rep. Tom DeLay, the Republican leader in the...

++++++++++++++++++ GET OUT THE VOTE ++++++++++++++++++ WE NEED YOUR HELP ON ELECTION DAY! Elections are won and lost by only a few votes per precinct and we need to boost our Voter Turnout. The campaign has identified 116,000 registered voters in Santa Clara County that we need to encourage to get to the polls on Election Day in order for us to deliver this area to Arnold and guarantee a success for California! We are asking that every able bodied person in Santa Clara County to help the Arnold Campaign locally on Election Day by acting as Poll Watchers and...

<p>The mood inside Sen. Mary Landrieu's re-election campaign headquarters was glum by midafternoon Saturday. Checks of key precincts showed turnout among African-American voters wasn't nearly what the Democratic incumbent needed.</p> <p>The monthlong national Republican blitz for challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell appeared to be working.</p>

Please post as much election information as you can on this thread, so we won't have a million separate threads running at one time. And, please, NO GRAPHICS -- just links!

A Call to Arms – Well, to the ballot box next Tuesday, anyway. I was unaware of the spectacle the Democrats made of themselves last night until I listened to Rush today. I have never heard him declare himself speechless – he admitted he did not have the words to describe the despicable behavior of the Democrats last night at Senator Wellstone's "memorial service." Sean Hannity was likewise in high dungeon. I don't want to dwell on the content of (as one of Sean's callers referred to it) "The 2002 Democrat National Convention." What struck me is the opportunity we...

Attention Louisville Republicans and FReepers. Don't forget about the "Get out the vote" rally on Thursday October 17th 7:00 PM at Christ Apostolic Church gymnasium 7905 Smyrna Rd. Louisville, KY. U.S. Rep. Anne Northup R-KY 3rd District has been invited to speak as well as several candidates for state and local offices. Anne is in a close fight against a very slick and polished young man named Jack Conway who is a former aide to our "Luv Guv" Paul Patton. Anne needs the support of Kentucky FReepers for an all out ground war in the final days of this campaign...

Attention Lousville and Kentucky Republicans! A "Get out the vote" rally will be held Thursday October 17 2002 7:00PM at Christ Apostolic Church Gymnasium 7905 Smyrna Rd. Louisville, Kentucky. Local and state candidates will rally the troops for our final push to victory in 2002! Anne Northup, R-KY 3rd District has been invited to speak. Bring signs and banners. It would be great to see some "freerepublic.com" signs in the crowd. See you there.

"Un-popular vote" GOP targets 'get-out-the-vote' foundation As former President Clinton visited Houston on Friday to raise money for a get-out-the-vote organization, a Republican lawmaker renewed the GOP claim that the organization is partisan and should lose its nonprofit status. The private fund-raiser Friday evening was expected to raise at least $100,000 for the San Antonio-based Every Texan Foundation, founded by Henry Cisneros, a former San Antonio mayor and Clinton Cabinet member. Supporters of the foundation contend it is intended as a nonpartisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote initiative. But earlier this week, the state Republican Party asked the Internal Revenue Service...