Kid Oakland says it's time to get involved. That someday, we'll want to tell our kids and grandchildren that in 2008, we helped elect Barack Obama President of the United States.
And I find a little friendly competition does wonders to get me moving. So, I'm hoping people will pledge, through the poll below, to help phone-bank for Obama on Super Tuesday.
It's easy, and you can do it from your home phone. You get a list of names through the web site and start calling, reminding them that it's election day and asking for their vote for Obama. Should be much easier to do Tuesday because with 22 states having primaries, the voters won't be inundated with calls and sick of them by the day of the actual vote.
You'll be calling Democrats and many of the people will have already been ID'd as Obama supporters. It's fast and easy.
And we'll make it a contest somehow to make it fun.
So, does anybody know how we can do this? Give me ideas below.
I'm thinking we split people up into teams as they sign up, so we get equal numbers of people on teams, and then we just phone like crazy and report back to our team leaders on the number of calls we've made.
We'll have a Mothership diary that we'll have to keep on the Recommended List and Team Leaders (we'll have to have Team Leaders, with wacky team names and slogans and cheer-leading for our team) will keep track of their numbers of calls and we'll show a running total throughout the day.
Most number of calls per team wins... pie? (I'm joking, I can't give you pie.)
Bragging rights.
We win bragging rights.
And stories to tell our grandchildren about how we helped change America.
Who's in? Just say yes. We'll tell you exactly how it will work once we figure it out. Come on. You can trust us.
(Full Disclosure: I voted for Edwards in South Carolina's primary, but I was honestly thrilled to see Obama win it the way he did. Never, ever imagined we'd see the day when we had more Democrats than Republicans voting in a primary in South Carolina. I was here that night practically dancing on the blogs, I was so happy. Still feel almost high from the experience and have to pinch myself to tell me it's real.
I've been disappointed by political candidates before. Joy is a whole new emotion.
The last time I felt it was probably the night Bill Clinton was... I guess it was at the convention the first time, watching him and Hillary, Al and Tipper Gore dancing on the stage at the end. I can still see them, see all that energy and joy, knowing we'd finally elected a Democrat again and believing he'd do great things and seeing how young they looked. They weren't of my generation, but were the youngest president and vice presidents I'd seen in my lifetime.
I'm ready for over-the-top, grinning-ear-to-ear, pinch-me-and-tell-me-it'-real joy that comes from electing Obama and him being everything we hope he can possibly be as a president.)