To start making calls now, visit: www.my.barackobama.com/call4martin
To organize a phonebank with paper call lists, sign up at: www.nationalfield.org/phonebank
Most importantly, Jim needs more volunteers on the ground. If you are interested in going to Georgia and joining Jim's team, email the campaign at: volunteer@martinvictory.com
I have been hammering away at the importance of this runoff down in Georgia. Stay tuned, and get used to it. This is a live campaign-- sure, Franken needs help in MN to ensure the recount up there is conducted fairly. But we netroots activists are really left with one place to go to advance our movement for change: Georgia.
This movement didn't stop November 5. And it can't be bogged down in uncorroborated speculation about undersecretaries & Attorneys General
Change happens on the ground. Please visit the above links and help get Jim Martin elected. Links to diaries and websites that make the case for Jim more eloquently than I can are below.
I haven't attempted a comprehensive diary explaining why Martin is good and Chambliss bad, but here is the closest to that of the things I've written on the runoff.
For that kind of comprehensive look, I recommend TrapperJohn's excellent writeup on the race from just 2 days after Obama's big win.
Jim makes his own case pretty well, too.
Brownsox, from the frontpage on 11/13
...and finally, from Adam B on the frontpage yesterday:
I recognize that waiting for Sen. Lieberman to emphasize the "Democrat" part of "independent Democrat" is much like waiting for Guns N'Roses' Chinese Democracy to be released, but if the latter is really hitting stores by Thanksgiving perhaps there's hope for Lieberman as well.
In that spirit, given his leadership role as a committee chairman in our party, there's two things he can do right now:
* Whatever Jim Martin wants in Georgia. It's time for Joe Lieberman to tap his fundraising network for the benefit of Martin as his runoff election approaches, and do whatever else the Martin campaign asks of him to help a Democrat get elected to the U.S. Senate in Georgia. If it's personal appearances, Lieberman should hop on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International Airport today. If it's conference calls with key local leaders with whom Lieberman would have influence, he should do it. How about buying a full page ad in the Atlanta Jewish Times to place an open letter in support of Martin?
Bottom line: whatever Jim Martin wants, Joe Lieberman can do, for the good of our party.
Don't get old waiting for Lieberman to lift a finger-- do what you can, yourself, instead.