Enthusiasm gap my ass!
But this campaign is far from over. The new goal is 10,000,000 voters in 7 days. And we can do it. We must do it.
I want you to picture the last two years with the currently projected electoral outcomes (which are not written in stone by any means): so imagine the last two years with Republican house control and maybe 52 Democratic votes in the Senate. I want you to consider that while watching policymaking in DC is painful now, it could have been far more painful. Stimulus package? Fuck that. Health care reform? Fuck that. Student loans reform? Fuck that. Financial reform? Fuck that. Small business bill? Fuck that. Credit card reform? Fuck that.
Fuck all of it. A Republican-controlled House would have essentially rendered these things impossible.
But that's essentially our future if we don't step up and GOTV.
In the future, there will come a time where we will have an opportunity to overhaul our electoral system and break the oligarchic control the current two-party system has over our citizenry. But this day is about ensuring our country is not held hostage by a bunch of political neanderthals who celebrate a culture saturated with unreason, ignorance, bigotry, and much more pervasive corruption.
We actually are gaining momentum as the day approaches. At the end of Day 5 of a 7-day series of mass phone banking efforts, we have called over 8,000,000 people. We have early voting advantages. The tea parties at the local level don't have the energy or the coordination that disciplined organizations like Organizing for America do. Fuck the "enthusiasm gap" narrative the media is pushing and make sure our future for the next two years is secure.
Call. Vote. Rally.
GOTV.
And while you're at it, turn orange to blue.