For the past a week or two, Barack Obama has been urging people to not get overconfident and remember to vote. I thought I'd pass on the word for good measure:
Cenk Uygar also urges constant vigilance:
Maegan Carberry writes:
More than ever before, in the last year I have been astounded by the power of one person.
We're within two weeks of learning the outcome of a movement, an amalgamation of shared ideas that could alter the course of this great nation. So many of us have participated in it and the compilation of our phone calls, canvassing, $25 donations and blog posts have given it the momentum necessary to thrive, and now the courageous friends I've made on the campaign trail are confessing to me daily the heart palpitations we're all feeling as we wait. Barack Obama downplays it when we credit him with this outpouring of civic participation, but at this excruciating time I think it's important for all of us to remember why we all chose to support this exceptional man on his historic journey.
He asked us to hope. These last few days as the dirtiest zingers flood the media and the capacity for manipulation and suppression looms, as it did in Florida and Ohio the last time we found ourselves here, I'm trying my hardest to remember that this was always a leap of faith. The belief that a truck-driving, Confederate flag toting Georgian could accept a black man as our President. That a new generation would find its political consciousness and mobilize. That political strategists and poll workers could appeal to their better selves and operate under the ideal of fairness established in our constitution. That we could end a war that never should have been waged in the first place and bring our exhausted soldiers home to their families. That this looming feeling of despair that's enveloped our bank accounts, thoughts, attitudes and dreams does not have to be the end of this story.
It started because Barack Obama believed in us and our capacity to do this together. I'm thinking back to the jitters that must have been in his stomach that night before his keynote convention speech in 2004, when a nobody made us all sit up in our chairs and really listen for the first time in a long time, making himself -- and all of us -- a somebody.
As my father the football coach would say: Put your own jitters aside and get your game face on because it's winning time.