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To: azdesert

I’ll be honest with you, I woke up today like a kid on Christmas Morning....


12 posted on 08/30/2008 8:37:06 AM PDT by cmsgop ( " excuse me stewardess I speak jive")
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Those folks who are excited and want to make an effort to help, consider this:

If you send money to the campaign, it pays for salaries. That’s an important thing, but there may be better bang for your buck.

If you instead book airline tickets and a hotel in a Nevada city or a Colorado city (for the OP), or any battleground state for the final weekend of the election then you can pop into the local campaign office and help staff the phone banks.

Phone banks Get Out The Vote, and it’s votes that matter — in battlegrounds — not how good you feel about being energized. It’s a real skill, too, and it’s work, not play. You make calls, you ask someone to come out and vote, you apologize (because they are getting buried in calls) and if they want to debate issues You Do Not. It’s not about fun, it’s about numbers. Time spent debating is time you’re not spending getting 3-4 other voters out.

Give it some thought. Traveling to a battleground state to volunteer is the way to focus your energy, not campaigning in a state already deeply red.


16 posted on 08/30/2008 8:45:02 AM PDT by Owen
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