MoveOn is now the biggest all-volunteer left-wing group ever. Think they are making a difference? I know you have done volunteer work and the next couple of days are xritical. We spent 5 hours working there today.
Push them away from polling places... ;-) My main service to the election is as an impartial election judge. I supervise a ward. This is the third head of elections I've worked for. In MN they have to be 100 feet back from the door to a private polling place and 100 feet back from the property line of a public public polling place. (Or at least that's what the head of elections says, and she pays me.) I've donated money and worked a bit on two compaigns... I was volunteering more before I started working again. I do admire your volunteering though.
There is some irony that I'm helping out as a foreigner who plans to stay here, and almost none of my friends born here are involved in anything. And when they are it is non-partisan stuff, which helps the system, but does not solve the US's biggest problem right now, which is the evil right wing. We need to get out the vote and to ensure that they count. On the former anyone can help. I wish more found even a couple of hours as every little bit helps. Few things in our everyday lives are as important as this time. MoveOn widened the number of close races, so they are helping, but will it be enough? We hope so. Eep, sorry, I guess today's five hours have put me in an over thoughtful mood. Thanks for the link and for your volunteer work. You are good people.
"In other sleaze news, Ted Haggard … now admits that he bought methamphetamine. However, he says he never used it. What a dodo. Why pay good money for drugs and not use them? That's as stupid as Bill Clinton paying good money for marijuana and not inhaling. Advice to politicians: it is better not to buy drugs at all, but if you must buy them, use them. It makes you look uncool to buy the drugs and then flush them down the toilet. You're never going to get the 18-24 year olds to vote for you that way."
Is that somebody too cheap to ante up for the "Happy Ending" is too cheap to trash the meth... it just ain't internally consistent... In other words, it wuz crystal and dick he was after in that pure little heart of his.
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Date: 2006-11-05 02:34 am (UTC)I usually
Date: 2006-11-05 02:43 am (UTC)Re: I usually
Date: 2006-11-05 03:16 am (UTC)Polls
Date: 2006-11-05 04:56 am (UTC)I predict a rout in the House, but that we won't get a majority -- let alone a Lieberman-proof majority -- in the Senate.
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Re: Polls
Date: 2006-11-05 05:03 am (UTC)Re: Polls
Date: 2006-11-05 01:51 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2006-11-05 05:08 am (UTC)Thanks for the link!
I particularly enjoyed:
"In other sleaze news, Ted Haggard … now admits that he bought methamphetamine. However, he says he never used it. What a dodo. Why pay good money for drugs and not use them? That's as stupid as Bill Clinton paying good money for marijuana and not inhaling. Advice to politicians: it is better not to buy drugs at all, but if you must buy them, use them. It makes you look uncool to buy the drugs and then flush them down the toilet. You're never going to get the 18-24 year olds to vote for you that way."
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Date: 2006-11-05 08:47 am (UTC)My second take on the whole issue...
Date: 2006-11-05 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-05 01:05 pm (UTC)