A friend wrote to me to thank me for working on Get Out the Vote. As I told him, I have mostly been having a blast working on GOTV, although at this point my brain is fried into a crispy critter from 3 weeks of 5 hours sleep a night. We are averaging 15 calls a minute on our busiest site now, and it was over 100 calls a minute on Sunday. If you have nothing else to do, feel free to go to www.votercall.org, register, and tell newly registered voters in PA and OH (and states west later in the night) why it is important to vote. Hearing someone tell them that their voice matters can make all the difference.
As I have written earlier, I have lived in countries where political matters were decided by guns, not votes. I was explaining to the progeny last night why it is so important that in this county, the final judge is the people's votes, and how, even though I loathe George W. Bush, if he is fairly re-elected I will consider him the legitimate president of the United States, and myself part of the loyal opposition. I got teary eyed.
I really believe in democracy, and I am proud of contributing to it.
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