Leave it all on the road. I see that that’s the slogan here, and as a competitive cyclist, I know the feeling. You can’t hold anything back, and you can’t take anything for granted.
The polls look good, but let me tell you, the early exit polls four years ago looked fantastic. But the cliché is true: polls don’t matter. Only votes do. And the large majority of those votes will be cast tomorrow. We have to do everything we possibly can to blow the Republican GOTV effort out of the water.
If we’re up by 4 in the polls in a state, we can win by 7. If we’re tied, we can win by 3. If we all do our best right now, we’ll not only win this election, but win the kind of mandate we need to actually change our country.
All of you remember what we went through last year. I’d come here to this community, and we’d talk about what we could do to pressure a few more Republicans to try to see the light and chart a new course on Iraq, or give more kids health care, or anything else that they blocked. That’s what a small, unworkable majority can bring.
This next day can change all that. We can have a true Democratic majority, filled with new progressives ready to move this country – finally! – into the 21st century. But we have to get absolutely every vote we can get. So please do what you can to get-out-the-vote. Head over the Barack’s website to see what you can do:
Volunteer!
And then email everyone in your address book that address and ask them to do what they can.
I was in New Hampshire this past weekend, and it was incredible. The organization that the Obama campaign has built is enormous, and it’s able to put huge numbers of people to work. But that organization depends on those people actually showing up to do that work. And “those people” are YOU. You are the bedrock of the Democratic Party, the activists who make it all work.
And this is a time to make it work. As Barack has said many times, you don’t run to the finish line, you run through the finish line.
Because you know whom we know is working hard? John McCain and Sarah Palin are working hard, along with the Republican Party, criss-crossing the country and continuing their misleading attacks on Barack Obama. But we can overwhelm them because we have truth on our side, and we have you. If they drive a voter to the polls, we should drive three, four, five voters to the polls. If they make one call, we should make five.
So check out what you can do by clicking here to volunteer. And you can find your polling place by clicking here:
http://VoteForChange.com
Pass that URL around to everyone you know so they can find their polling place as well.
If we can turn all of our supporters out, if we can all go to the polls and bring people with us, our country will never be the same. We need a victory large enough that the personal attacks of the McCain campaign are discredited, the policies of the Bush-McCain GOP are repudiated, and the ideology of the extreme right is rejected, once and for all.
And then we can work together on how to get this country moving again, instead of just trying to limit the damage of a Republican President and his Roadblock Republican allies.
Tomorrow is election day. This is our time.
Update: I should mention that I'll be out on the road at some events for a while, but I'll check back through the comments mid-afternoon, and then again this evening.
Let's win this and win it big!
