With regards to a number of well-written-but-ultimately-navel-gazing diaries on the rec list today, can I remind everyone here of something?
Tomorrow, November 3, 2009, is Election Day across America.
No, it's not a federal election day (save NY-23 and CA-10), but there are gubernatorial, county, municipal, township and/or referendum issues on the ballot in your neck of the woods. They matter. These local races are often the training grounds for future congressional and national leaders -- imagine if Wasilla had elected a different city councillor in 1992. Imagine if Barack Obama had failed in his first run for the Illinois State Senate.
Here in Philadelphia, I'll be able to vote to make Seth Williams our first new District Attorney in almost two decades, and will spend the day coordinating the legal team in the field in efforts to elect a Democratic slate of judges to the Court of Common Pleas in Montgomery County, PA. (Full disclosure: they're clients.)
You, too, need to make yourself useful tomorrow, and that means planning and volunteering today. Don't forget where you are:
It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory.
Tell us what you're doing to help us win elections tomorrow. Everything else can wait until Wednesday.