All that matters now is Getting Out The Vote! (GOTV)
I live in Baltimore—a safe Democratic State. So, once again, I have turned my attention to nearby Pennsylvania. Your help is needed and everywhere. If you can make it to Philadelphia—go! Be there. McCain is counting on a lower turn-out in Philly and the surrounding suburbs. In the Primary I GOTV in West Philly:
This time out I have been traveling from Baltimore, MD to York County, PA and joining the hundreds of folks there working to GOTV a red area of the state.
In a moment, I leave to vote and then return to York. I will be off-line until after the polls close.
Join me in the GOTV effort. Turn off the computer. Stop worrying about polls and the latest campaign buzz and gossip. Forget about all of that. It no longer matters.
All that matters is YOU.
Find a place to help GOTV. Take action.
You have the power!
Use it...
Look, there have been a lot of better written Diaries than this one on where and how to help GOTV—how to volunteer and take action to Take This Country Back! There will be more today.
I decided that this time out, West Philly would be fired up and ready to go and I wanted to go to someplace facing an uphill GOTV challenge. I decided on York County, PA. I looked up the local Obama office in York on the Obama Web site and called to volunteer. I know I could have done the same via email or text message, but I’m "old school" in that I’m-used-to-making-a-phone-call kind of way. Long story short, I was given a contact and a meeting place and Shazam I was door knocking in no time. It was easy.
Now, there are many more tasks to do in our GOTV effort than just docking on doors and/or leaving hangers and literature. You could make calls; talk to your neighbors, your friends, your family. You could watch the polls.
There are many roles that need to be filled. So... fill one. It is important. We only have TODAY to win this election and that will not happen if we are reading and writing Diaries and hoping all over the intertubes..
On November 5, 2008 Daily Kos will still be here. There will be many Diaries to read and some to write. These need to be about how to use a great victory and what the work required to repair the damage is and how it needs to be done. I want to read those Diaries and join into that discussion.
What I do not want, what I could not face is a day where we bitch and moan about "what might have been" if we had just worked a little bit harder. Not. This. Time.
Now is the time to do that work like your life depends upon it, because it does.
I love my Country. Now is the time to take it back from these sick weasels. They will not give up power lightly or easily. Each of us is now called to action. YOU are called to action.
All that matters is GOTV.
Winning requires action. Winning requires that YOU take action.
So, what are you doing today to GOTV?
Take action and do something.
Together we will win this one.
Cheers.