I hear the Pat Buchanans and their ilk saying "oh, the Dems are down, they're disheartened, Palin is the greatest thing since sliced bread" (<- not a direct quote ) ;-)
But we are out there DONATING ($55 million in August is the rumor) and if the number of faces I see out on the street is any indication, we are not just donating our treasure, but our TIME. Do you know how sweet it is to see nicely dressed Main Line Ladies outside Trader Joe's this morning, registering voters behind a "Yes, We Can" sign?
People are showing up at Obama HQ, asking what they can do. In Pennsylvania alone thus far something like 250,000 new Dems are registered. People on DU are canvassing every house their legs will take them to - read the threads.
The MSM might want a horse race, but we are the power of the grassroots.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyCjg56QEYy3r8Gz2X09TnpaWOMwD9317JU00CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank in the hope of adding to those gains before the presidential vote.
She's encouraged by the response here. "They're all feeling the crunch" of lost jobs and a sagging economy, Graham said. "But people are feeling empowered. They're feeling like, you know what, I hold a little bit of power in this."
Since the last federal election in 2006, volunteers like Graham combined with the enthusiasm generated by the Obama-Clinton struggle to add more than 2 million Democrats to voter rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states.
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We're on the right track, people.
Be part of the effort. Go to barackobama.com and find out where there's a voter registration effort in your town tomorrow. Walk. Make Calls. One voter at a time, folks.........
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