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MoveOn.org Urges People to Skip Work on Election Day
Crosswalk.com ^ | 10/23/2006 | Monisha Bansal

Posted on 10/23/2006 3:57:31 AM PDT by Hadean

(CNSNews.com) - The liberal activist group, MoveOn.org is urging people to skip work on Nov. 7 and volunteer to call voters in 30 competitive districts in an effort to get more liberals to show up at the polls.

"Take the day off work," MoveOn.org said in a statement released Thursday. "Skip your annoying commute. Skip those endless meetings. This election is the best chance we've had in years to change the direction of our country. And we have a plan to put dozens of races over the top by making hundreds of thousands of get-out-the-vote phone calls on Election Day."

The group plans to call voters during the four days leading up to the midterm congressional election, with a goal of 750,000 on Nov. 7 itself.

"There are 25 Republicans whose seats will be decided by only a few hundred or thousand votes. We're calling people who are likely to lean progressive if they vote at all, but who might not vote, judging from their voter history," said MoveOn.org.

"We can decide if there's another right-wing Supreme Court justice. We can decide whether the occupation in Iraq goes on indefinitely," the group added. "And we can decide if we'll finally get the healthcare, clean energy, and corruption-free democracy we all deserve."

MoveOn.org also noted that "there's no legal concern with allowing employees to use personal leave or vacation time to volunteer as long as it's in accordance with normal company policy."

But Brian Darling, director of Senate Relations for the conservative Heritage Foundation, called the idea of asking people to take the day off work "odd."

"Conservatives tend to work and then take some time off to go vote. They wouldn't take the day off to go volunteer their efforts," Darling told Cybercast News Service. "I guess it's a different mentality between conservatives and left-wingers."

"I'm not that concerned," Darling added. "I just assume that there won't be that many individuals who will participate in it, because MoveOn.org doesn't have a very high percentage of Americans that support them.

"MoveOn.org has not had a history of winning campaigns," Darling said.

John Keeley, communications director for the Center for Immigration Studies, said the idea is similar to the "Day Without an Immigrant" illegal immigration rally earlier this year.

"The call for a boycott is reminiscent of the boycott of earlier in the spring, and that had the effect of achieving the exact opposite of what the organizers wanted," Keeley told Cybercast News Service.

"These people had a sense that these people were doing the opposite of what the rest of us are doing - showing up for work, showing up for school - that's what we do in America," he said.

"This sounds like MoveOn.org hasn't learned the lessons that most of the rest of the country did in the spring," Keeley added.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006; election
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1 posted on 10/23/2006 3:57:32 AM PDT by Hadean
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To: Hadean

Don't most of those guys live in Mommy and Daddy's basement anyway?


2 posted on 10/23/2006 3:58:58 AM PDT by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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To: Hadean

They have jobs?


3 posted on 10/23/2006 3:59:33 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Hadean

Any POS liberal who calls me on election day will get an earfull.


4 posted on 10/23/2006 3:59:57 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Hadean

"Vote Early and Often"


5 posted on 10/23/2006 4:00:54 AM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: Hadean

meyer.org is urging managers to fire those that fail to show up to work on November 7th.


6 posted on 10/23/2006 4:03:41 AM PDT by meyer (A vote for amnesty is a vote against America.)
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To: Hadean

McDonalds and Burger King hardest hit....


7 posted on 10/23/2006 4:06:22 AM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: Hadean

I thought Wednesday, the 8th, was the moonbat day to go to the polls.


8 posted on 10/23/2006 4:08:16 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: Snickersnee

Well....that's true I guess, but my big question is, "you mean those people actually have jobs?"


9 posted on 10/23/2006 4:11:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Paladin2
heh heh! That's what I thought.

They're setting themselves up again for another roller coaster day with libs voting early in the day.

10 posted on 10/23/2006 4:12:03 AM PDT by Ladysmith
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To: Hadean
We're calling people who are likely to lean progressive if they vote at all, but who might not vote, judging from their voter history," said MoveOn.org.

"Progressive"? Do they mean like Teddy Roosevelt?

Isn't funny how liberals keep trying to find a new terms for the the cluster (and I do mean cluster) of political views supporting perversion, bastardy, indolence, corruption, paternalism, and institutionalized racism?

11 posted on 10/23/2006 4:14:19 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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To: Hadean

Great idea! By 4:00 P.M. all the exit polls will show the Jackasses way ahead. By the time the polls close they'll all be saying, "What happened?"


12 posted on 10/23/2006 4:20:33 AM PDT by metesky (My investment portfolio is holding steady @ .05¢ a can.)
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To: Hadean
"Take the day off work," MoveOn.org said in a statement released Thursday.

Then call the ACLU when your butt gets fired.

13 posted on 10/23/2006 4:21:59 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: maggief

Great minds think alike. I didn't realize they had jobs either. I thought I worked to keep them fed and housed by my tax dollars.


14 posted on 10/23/2006 4:22:00 AM PDT by flynmudd (Proud Navy Mom to OSSR Richard T. Blalock-DDG 61)
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To: Hadean

I heartily encourage every democrat to take November 8th off so they can vote.


15 posted on 10/23/2006 4:25:14 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
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To: Snickersnee
Don't most of those guys live in Mommy and Daddy's basement anyway?

And on some type of government assistance. Just take a look at DU (if you can stand it!) and see how many get a government check (many for mental health reasons!). Also check out how many claim to be TEACHERS (no wonder schools are failing!) and many kids are idiots when they graduate.

16 posted on 10/23/2006 4:26:15 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: metesky
Great idea! By 4:00 P.M. all the exit polls will show the Jackasses way ahead. By the time the polls close they'll all be saying, "What happened?"

And 1 minute after that they'll begin screaming, "Diebold".

17 posted on 10/23/2006 4:26:48 AM PDT by Hadean
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To: Hadean
And 1 minute after that they'll begin screaming, "Diebold".

I love the sound of screaming in the morning. It sounds like victory.

18 posted on 10/23/2006 4:32:18 AM PDT by metesky (My investment portfolio is holding steady @ .05¢ a can.)
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To: Hadean

If the people that ACTUALLY work ACTUALLY vote, MoveOn is in trouble.


19 posted on 10/23/2006 4:57:33 AM PDT by evad
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To: Hadean

Jeez...I better pack a lunch that day. Fast food will be out of business.


20 posted on 10/23/2006 5:12:01 AM PDT by Fawn (Hillary's junk--> http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/10/hillarys_baggag.html)
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