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  •  here are your 10 suggestions (8+ / 0-)

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    1. Give money, even if it is only $5. Pony up to help get voters out.
    1. phone bank. Check out MoveOn's phone bank program where you can call people in important districts from your cell phone.
    1. Go to the local Democratic party office and help answer the phones or make copies. By making things flow easier in one campaign office you make things run a little easier in nearby districts, too (by freeing up volunteers to move on to where they are needed, etc.)
    1. Call every friend you have and everyone in your cell phone around the country and make sure they go vote for their Dem candidates. The one or two votes you shake out this way will matter.
    1. There are districts outside of San Francisco - maybe just a couple of hours away, which isn't much at all, really - that need your help.

    Go volunteer for McNerney http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/...
    Or drive out to Tracy, CA to help this netroots effort:
    http://www.dailykos.com/...

    1. Get involved in calling Democratic officeholders with large warchests and little competition, much discussed on these pages. (I had an interesting conversation with my Congressman's staff on this today)
    1. Go volunteer for Nancy Pelosi. Yes, she will win, but by volunteering you free her up to campaign for other Dems AND you meet some of your local activists.
    1. If nothing else, stand somewhere where drivers leaving the city for suburbs to the north across the GG Bridge can see your hand-made sign reminding them to vote for their Democratic candidates. OR get a preprinted sign from some local candidate or two in Sonoma County and hold it for the suburbanites going home at rush hour to see.
    1. Write letters to ABC, CNN etc telling them to lay off of their support for Republicans in this election. It won't accomplish a lot but it adds to the drip drip drip telling them the tide is turning.
    1. Make sure everyone you know is voting against Arnold. Maybe even create a short list on all of the crazy ballot initiatives CA voters have to wade through explaining the issues from a progressive perspective. Then email it to everyone you know.

    How's that? 10. Now you can change the title of your diary AND do some real good in this election!

    http://denniswine.blogspot.com

    by denniswine on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:21:16 PM PDT

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    •  Perfect. Thanks (2+ / 0-)

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      I'll go ahead and change the title.

      "Well, yeah, the Constitution is worth it if you can succeed." Nancy Pelosi

      by StupidAsshole on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:23:36 PM PDT

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      •  'GOTV so simple a StupidAsshole can do it. " (?) (1+ / 0-)

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        Like the new Geico/Caveman commercials (which crack me up.)

        Your tactics are extortionary.

        LoL CNN: AC360 "We're dialing down the heat and turning up the light." LoL ME " I'm pretty sure that I swallowed my own tongue."

        by cosette on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:32:07 PM PDT

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        •  There are new Geico Caveman commercials? (1+ / 0-)

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          Haven't seen them yet.

          "Well, yeah, the Constitution is worth it if you can succeed." Nancy Pelosi

          by StupidAsshole on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:36:43 PM PDT

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          •  YOU will Love them! (1+ / 0-)

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            God your title is still such a bummerrama.
             My seratonin is dropping precipitiously while I am in your diary (which has some good tips in it, btw) ...
            AND you are right!!
            But it is like I'm having a flashback to Nov '04 and I'm crashing--- not getting upbeat and motivated.
            We don't all live in progressive enclaves.  Some of us have John Cornyn and Kaye Bailey Hutchinson as Senators and we wake up every morning and our teeth are sore from grinding them all night.....
            and We Need Some Positive Motivation.

            (One Geico ad has just music playing, The caveman is going to his plane gate on vacation and he is on the motorized walkway and he sees his picture on the Geico ad on the wall. ...and he walks backwards to check it out again .....and checks to see if anyone is checking him out  and recognizing his pic.  Then he continues off to gate very pleased with himself.
            The other one he's in a restuarant ....I've only caught tale end but cracked up).   I'm going to try You tube.

             

            LoL CNN: AC360 "We're dialing down the heat and turning up the light." LoL ME " I'm pretty sure that I swallowed my own tongue."

            by cosette on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:49:07 PM PDT

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            •  The one in the loft is the best still (1+ / 0-)

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              Cave art on the walls.  Priceless.

              Buck up.  You are the person I support.  I'm in the SF Bay Area too.  You're out there fighting in the trenches.  Do whatever you can and get back here to juice up.  1 of you is better than 5 of us.

              A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

              by Webster on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:59:56 PM PDT

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              •  Kos just posted an SF event. (2+ / 0-)

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                George Lakoff!!
                Free event!
                (I like your hometown paper blog post idea. )

                LoL CNN: AC360 "We're dialing down the heat and turning up the light." LoL ME " I'm pretty sure that I swallowed my own tongue."

                by cosette on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 12:07:35 AM PDT

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                •  Saw that. (1+ / 0-)

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                  You couldn't drag me back into Wheeler hall to see Christ personally kick Bush's ass.  I spent 90 percent of my time at Berkeley there.  Besides, I'll be in my hometown Bakersfield, CA campaigning.  :)

                  A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

                  by Webster on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 12:27:20 AM PDT

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      •  Charlie Brown is just 2 hours away and needs you! (3+ / 0-)

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        Here is an 11th suggestion...give a day or two to Charlie Brown, inhttp://www.charliebrown%20for%20cong....  Phone banking, walking precincts, whatever you can do to help unseat the ethically challenged John T Doolittle.

        by donabella on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:33:31 PM PDT

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    •  !! Nice list!! (1+ / 0-)

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      tlh lib

      (Not directed at you, dennis)

      Okay, You Stupid Asshole, CHANGE THE TITLE.

      LoL CNN: AC360 "We're dialing down the heat and turning up the light." LoL ME " I'm pretty sure that I swallowed my own tongue."

      by cosette on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:26:27 PM PDT

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