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Welcome to WHAT IF Wednesday!
WHAT IF... Candidates and Activists got together to change a State?
There's a current project underway in the state of Virginia to do exactly that.
See who has recently publicly supported the 90for90.org project.
It's called
90for90.org and it's an interesting concept.
In honor of Dr. William F. "Fergie" Reid's 90th birthday and his long history of expanding voters' rights, we commit to registering new voters for this years election.
If all volunteers and candidates worked together to register 90 new voters in each of the Commonwealth's precincts, our efforts would result in a quarter million new voters for the Old Dominion.
Dr. Wm Ferguson Reid, Sr.
They're calling for the candidates and Feets-in-the-streets Activists to join forces and add just 90 new registered voters per precinct this year.
Which would add an amazing Quarter Million new voters in the Old Dominion (the historic name for the state of Virginia).
Imagine, if you will, how much 250,000 new voters could change the results of the election in 2016...
In 2012 these were the final general election results for President:
Obama 1,971,820
Romney 1,822,522
Obama won, but only 51.1% to 47.2%
Thats a fairly slim margin. What Democrats can not afford in the upcoming presidential election is a fairly slim margin.
You know why? Because a fairly slim margin could leave us with another Democratic President and a Republican Congress. Which means another four years of obstruction. Four more years of nothing getting done.
This nation cannot afford another four years like the last four years.
Especially when up to 90% of the people tell pollsters they agree with Democratic policies!
So, please - as individuals, you can help the 90for90.org project by sharing their URL on Facebook and Twitter and other social media.
If you belong to an organization of any sort, please consider being listed on the 90for90.org website as a supporter of the idea that MORE REGISTERED VOTERS IS A GOOD THING.
That's all they're trying to achieve. Spreading the word and asking the Virginia candidates and activists to work together to register just 90 new voters in each precinct.
That's a campaign goal which I'd like to set in my District here in WA State, too.
Because 90 new voters in each of our precincts? They could put me in the US Congress!
as always...
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Phoenix & Baja Arizona Kossacks Meet-up with Many Out-of-Town Visitors!
TIME: 5:00 PM
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24 North 2nd Street • Phoenix, near the Convention Center
ORGANIZER: Send Mother Mags a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. Mother Mags
2. Azazello
3. Mrs. Azazello
4. rasbobbo
5. navajo
6. vicki
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8. Mark Mohundro
9. brillig
10 mik
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13. Arenosa
14. Pam Miles
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17. Perfect Stormer
18. SanDiegoDem
19. DaNang65
20. slowblues
21. mrs slowblues
22. Kid 1
23. Malacandra
24. shayera
25. edgery
26. edgery's grandson
27. Sun Tzu
28. MsSpentyouth
29. BruinKid
30. mah621
31. State Sen. Andrea Dalessandro
32. artmartin
33. afrodamus
34. Lulu
35. elk18
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DAILY KOS COLORADO ROAD TRIP!
Sunday, July 26th
Denver Kos Meet-up with Meteor Blades and navajo
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Mercury Cafe is powered by the Wind and the Sun. We serve Local, Organic Food, and Community is our purpose.
2199 California Street • Denver
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3. Meteor Blades
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5. acpa
6. Ginny in CO
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Colorado Springs Kos Meet-up with Meteor Blades and navajo
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Announcing Asheville, North Carolina as the location
for our next Regional Event! 9.26.15
Asheville, N.C. is the destination for September 26, 2015! DKos Asheville, the In-Real-Life group under the leadership of randallt, has been setting the example for other IRL groups across the nation regarding registering people to vote, getting out the vote, having a state open thread and setting up strategy conferences for their region. Because of this impressive leadership we've asked randallt to be the State Leader for all of North Carolina. We've got important work to do on the ground there and randallt has shown he's the person to make that happen.
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