they provide wonderful stories and glimpses at the infrastructure of the ground game.  Invaluable and illuminating.

may be seeking poll observers for the November election. It's important work and feels great to do.

Bravo to funluvn1!

I heard a worker clearly say "you do not need ID to vote"  It made me smile inside

True story: I was living in Jamestown in the 90's (Cedarwood area) and put a Clinton/Gore sign in my yard in '92.  After that my kids werent allowed to play with our neighbor's kids because the parents didnt like 'our kind'. I could only imagine a sign for an AA would've gotten more negative karma. Clinton/Gore were two southern white guys.  Has NC changed that much?

Good luck in NC. GO Obama!

is another Republican lie.  It is being used to suppress minority and poor people from voting, because these are people who will vote overwhelmingly Democratic.

In fact, the only documented cases of people committing voter fraud are those of people like Coltergiest, who voted in two different precincts in Florida in 2004.

The real voter fraud scandal is the open question of whether a Republican-supporting corporation can be trusted to count votes fairly.  These guys came to power be suppressing vote counts; they know what it takes to win.

Thanks for standing up for the law!!!

I heard on a radio station left of NPR that Indiana has the strictest ID requirement of all:  you need a valid government-issued ID card with your picture on it (I assume this means drivers' license in most cases).

This was largely viewed as a GOP-favored initiative, the Democrats dissenting along party lines, since most of the disenfranchised were, well, the disenfranchised, the usual suspects!

...thinks that Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius in Kansas is going to be the first female POTUS. She's a rock star in Kansas and the midwest, and I hear she's fairly progressive as well.

was that with an influx of women into business and government, we'd end up with a more caring, sensitive world.  The addition of women into power could only help balance us, we thought.

Instead, women padded their shoulders and began taking on the less savory aspects of their male colleagues - trying to appear tough, displaying false cameraderie, cultivating aggression, utilizing Machivellian techniques to get ahead.  The acquisition of power was no longer a means to an end - it became the end itself.

Hillary is one deeply admired woman of that (my) generation of feminists.  And so we are left with the man who could afford to remain true to himself, who refused to cast off his innate sensitivity and compassion in exchange for external power.  Here is a man who knows his inner voice, his moral compass IS his true power.  

Honestly, I think a vote for Obama is a vote for the ideals of feminism that we started out with.  He, better than Hillary, will help us toward the more ideal world that still awaits us.