Day of reckoning in Georgia

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Monday November 17, 2008 · 3:05 AM PST

2008/11/17 · 03:05

The day of reckoning in the runoff election between Jim Martin (D) and Saxby Chambliss (R) will be December 2. The volunteer turnout here in DeKalb County is very weak compared with the effort before November 4, and I suspect equally so in the other counties and left-over Obama offices. Maybe people are burned out or busy facing the coming holidays, or retaking their personal lives -- but the fact that there is an important runoff election on December 2 needs to be considered as seriously important. Martin continues to "play nice" in his advertisements, such as they are, and we have not seen any significant uptick in his campaigning activities in the past week/10 days.
Our local Campaign for Change office has welcomed an Obama organizer from Florida, and we have embarked on the usual door-to-door canvassing of neighborhoods and continual phone banking with a new script to match the circumstances of the runoff. These activities will continue up to the day of the runoff election.
But the communication between the Martin campaign and the volunteers available to him has been very poor, and so the runoff event is not attracting the attention and garnering the importance that it should. More below ...

chira

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Monday August 18, 2008 · 9:00 AM PDT

2008/08/18 · 09:00

I live in the Atlanta metro area and belong to the local Obama group, which is working to register voters, organize neighborhood and regional action groups, and advance Obama's campaign in Georgia. My principal activity has been in voter registration, and I have witnessed a number of problems in this regard and its activity, as discussed below. It is very surprising to me to find so many people who have never registered to vote, or who have not updated their registration after moving or changing their name. On November 4, if you are not a properly registered voter, carrying a photo identification card, you will not be allowed to vote in Georgia!

chira

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 10:40 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 10:40

Can Georgia become BLUE as well as GREEN? It seems possible if Georgia goes for Democrats in November and elects Rand Knight as a U.S. Senator from Georgia. The primary for this senate nomination will be held in Georgia in July, and it seems important to focus on Democratic races below the presidential level if we really want change to occur in our government.
Rand Knight (D-Georgia) holds excellent positions on the need for change in policies regarding energy supplies, water supplies, the war in Iraq, health care, education, the economy, and local job creation. As he explains it, these issues are actually complementary. His proposal for a broad-band solution is what he calls the "Green Deal." More below the jump...

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