If you are like me, you read this site daily to get real news and analysis from some of the smartest people in the world. I found this place when I thought the whole country had gone crazy, and that the foreign press was the only place to get any other side to a story. I have been reading here ever since, and I know there must be thousands out there like me. It seems to me the number of active commenters is much smaller than the daily traffic of this site and others like it. Markos mentions a similar fact today. If that is true, we need to prove it with a fundraising drive to give all the money we can this season RIGHT NOW.
I know how busy you are, I run a mid sized business and have a big family, but we owe this to Obama, the democrats and to Daily Kos too. If you are like me, you have given a lot over the past few years to many different campaigns you never even heard of because you have learned to trust what you find here and the judgment of the active users. You buy the books from Markos and others to give them their props, and might have even worked on a few campaigns (phone banking from home is easy!).
But that is all in the past now.
We have got to give big RIGHT NOW! I just gave the largest donation I have ever contributed and have maxed out for the first time in a election in my life. We might not be good writers, we might have only done a few diaries, comments, and recommendations in our time here, but we read this site every free chance we get and always get the story BEFORE the traditional media does, with more details and a better analysis. What we can do is give money so those active players and concentrate on wining this election, with a large majority in the house and senate.
Thank you to all the active users who make this site what it is, I dedicate this donation to you. I feel so much better about my country and my kids’ future now that the "progressive blogs" have an influence in our national discussion. I consider myself a paleolurker, user ID just over 10,000, and have given and will continue to give to obsure campaigns and causes because that is what us lurkers can do and should do.