Dear People of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
It’s been a long presidential primary season. We’re all sick of it. I am, you are. Hell, my neighbours in Australia are.
You’re enduring a barrage of television ads, radio ads and automated telephone calls. People knocking on your doors and calling you to secure your vote.
In 2004, I was one of those people knocking on your doors and calling you, from my cell phone in a tiny campaign office in Lancaster, urging you to vote for John Kerry. Many of you didn’t listen to me then, and now look where we are.
I’m asking you to listen to me again.
The two Democratic candidates for president are stuck, locked in an epic battle. It hasn’t ended yet because there has been no "knockout blow". We all know that Barack Obama is leading in whatever maths you want to use.
We all know that if Hillary Clinton doesn’t win your state by a landslide—along with the eight others remaining—she has no shot in hell of winning the nomination short of an outright coup d’état among superdelegates
But we all know that she will not back down, even if it means destroying the Democratic party in the process. This scorched-earth strategy does no one any favours, and the only thing it will ensure is that Democrats lose the un-losable election, and that John McCain becomes the 44th President of the United States.
Four more years of this bullshit.
You have a choice between hope for the future, and a backward-looking, more-of-the-same, scaremongering candidate. We already have one of those in the White House. We don’t need another.
You have the chance to end this race right now.
You have the chance to end the speculation, armchair superdelegate counting and endless punditry.
You have the chance to make sure that a Democrat wins the White House in November.
But you can only do that if you go into your polls tomorrow and vote for Barack Obama.
Let’s end this once and for all. Let’s start a new era in America, where we’re respected in the world once again, where our people have hope and optimism, where we have policies that make sense for working families.
Let’s put Barack Obama in the White House.
Sincerely,
AggieDemocrat
Cross-posted at Sydneysided