GOTV: Tell Me How!

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 6:44 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 06:44

I'm doing my first GOTV trip tomorrow, heading to Indiana! Never done this before. Sort of nervous. I know I'm going to be trained when I get there at (mumble) in the morning, but I love the idea of having a bunch of other people's tips and stories at my fingertips.

So, Kossacks, tell me your tales! Where have you done GOTV? What's it like? Do you have tips for a newbie? Do you have inspirational (or, hey, it's Halloween: frightening will work, too) stories to get folks revved up for this four-day push? Do you want to show those fence-sitters what they're missing and convince them to come out and work like hell these last few days?

Bring the stories, guys!

Biden makes Palin concede on civil unions

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 7:53 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 07:53

(Note: the full responses to the question on same-sex marriage can be found on the CNN transcript, a little above the half-way point.

Biden did a masterful job of making this about rights, not about who's married and who isn't. He did a much better job of setting forth his opinions and left Palin sputtering in the background without any way of strongly differentiating herself, and left the impression that she agreed with what he'd said. At the very least, he boxed her into a corner where in order to she had to announce that a McCain/Palin administration would make no move to block civil unions.

Let me repeat that: Four years after gay marriage was used as a fear tactic in the 2004 elections, the Republican VP candidate essentially conceded the field on civil unions.

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 7:14 AM PDT

2008/09/29 · 07:14

My parents live in a small town in Kansas. Up until 2004, they were staunch Republicans; since then, they've become increasingly irritated and cranky Republicans who really hate George Bush and his administration. On my last trip home I was shocked to hear them bandying Cheney's name around like a curse word; they are now completely convinced that the administration lied their way into Iraq and have wrecked everything.

The big question mark this year has been whether or not they'll connect their negative feelings about Bush with McCain. I'm working on it, believe me, but it's a touchy subject because they really want to believe that not EVERYONE in their party has completely lost touch with reality.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 7:29 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 07:29

There's been a rash of young women in the news over the past ten years who feel it's necessary to preface feminist thoughts with "I'm not a feminist, but--" That's another failure of the feminist movement and another victory for the patriarchy: young women growing up with no damn clue what being a feminist means, except that it has a negative tinge to it.

I am, by God, a feminist. And I am utterly furious that Geraldine Ferarro continues to go on the news and boil the feminist cause down to this: Elect a woman. Any woman. Doesn't matter what she thinks. Because saying that goes against the very heart of feminism: the revolutionary idea that it does matter what a woman thinks.

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 7:50 AM PDT

2008/04/07 · 07:50

The Great Gatsby's diary about his courageous question to Hillary Clinton, and her non-response, shruticounseling found a better response hidden in Clinton's later comments (link to the news source here).

Clinton, who continued making her case to the Obama supporter drew loud cheers from the crowd when she told the man: "I wish we could believe that we could get to universal health care, that we could turn the economy around, that we could end the home foreclosure crisis merely by asking people to do it, by bringing them together, by pointing to a higher cause and expecting them to shelve their personal, ideological, personal and partisan advantages, that is not the way the world has ever worked."

It isn't? That's news to me.

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Thursday March 22, 2007 · 7:33 AM PDT

2007/03/22 · 07:33

Having a straight guy in the house over the past five years has been like having a window into a world that I'm not particularly comfortable with. It's one thing when it's just us, or when we're hanging out with gay or female or gay-and-female friends, but put my husband on X-Box Live or an internet chatroom with other guys and he starts using the strangest things as insults.

"That's so gay."

"Do you have sand in your vagina?"

"Go suck a cock."

"Don't get your panties in a twist."

And, of course, the Coulteresque "Fag!"

This is usually the point where I commit spousal abuse and smack him upside the head.

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Tuesday March 13, 2007 · 7:02 AM PDT

2007/03/13 · 07:02

We all know how the liberal media glamorizes driving; you see it everywhere, in the movies, on TV, on the internet, in books and magazines and newspapers. Fast cars are a Hollywood staple. Everywhere a child looks, they are deluged with images of shiny cars and carefree driving.

The truth is far different: Without a doubt, cars are the greatest threat to our children. And yet, misguided educators teach driver's ed to children. Every day, innocent kids are told that they can and should drive, when they're in no way mature enough to make the kinds of decisions that driving entails. Sure, they're given instruction in safety, but to what end? We're still sending them out on the road, risking their lives. The only way to make 100% sure that our children do not die driving a car is Abstinence-Only Driver's Ed.

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GOTV: Tell Me How!

Biden makes Palin concede on civil unions

Taking the pulse of the Heartland: my Kansas mom, post-debate

It matters what a woman thinks

Senator Clinton and the nature of leadership

"Gay" and "Girl" are not insults, you jerks

Abstinence-Only Driver's Ed