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Dear Friends, I pulled this twit from Doug Hoffman's Campaign facebook page: Tweet, Facebook, text, IM, make calls -- but get out the vote. Let the voice of the people, not the Pelosis be heard. #tcot LETS GET GOING AND Make some GOTV calls for him, and other buzz on the webb to help keep Mr. Hoffman's momentum gong..! The same can be said for Mr. Christie up in New Jersey as well..(and Harmer in CA 10), McDonnell.

Sarah Palin isn’t staying out of the Virginia governor’s race after all. Less than 48 hours before voters head to the polls to elect a new governor, several Virginians reported receiving robocalls on Sunday from the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, urging them to “vote for Sarah’s principles” on Tuesday. But the recording makes no mention of the Bob McDonnell, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who has been reluctant to embrace Palin during the governor’s race, out of fear that she might alienate some of the independent voters who have helped him climb to a healthy lead in the polls over...

Chambliss: ‘Dynamite’ Palin turned out vote By Klaus Marre Posted: 12/03/08 10:29 [ET] Newly reelected Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with firing up his base and allowing him to cruise to a victory over Democrat Jim Martin. “Sarah Palin came in on the last day, did a fly-around and, man, she was dynamite,” Chambliss told Fox News on Wednesday. “We packed the houses everywhere we went. And it really did allow us to peak and get our base fired up.” Chambliss beat Martin by three points on Nov. 4 but did not reach 50 percent of...

With the election in the rear view mirror, the progressive political action committee MoveOn.org wants to make sure the candidates it worked to help get into office support a truly progressive agenda.To that end, it held more than 500 "Fired Up and Ready to Go" gatherings throughout the country Thursday night. A meeting held at the Dardanelles restaurant on Monroe Street drew 15 people, all white and over 50.About 350 MoveOn.org members registered for get-togethers in 18 locations throughout Wisconsin, according to the state coordinator for MoveOn.org, Paul Otto. The local group wants to send a message to members of...

The race between Barack Obama and John McCain was supposed to be about winning the middle. Both candidates embraced the theme of moving from partisan gridlock to seeking bipartisan consensus. Obama's speeches evoked a country that was "not blue states and red states, but more United States." McCain focused on his record of working on both sides of Senate aisle. In contrast to the 2004 election, in which both parties sought to motivate their bases, this campaign was set on the battlefield of undecided voters. The election results, however, record the exact opposite happening. Most undecided voters swung to McCain,...

A look at vaious exit polls (including the linked ones): Looks like Party ID in three exit polls Favored the Democrats 39%D/32%R/29%I (+7% Democrats). A breakdown of several exit polls provides the following observations: (Good news/bad news) 1.) Women are increasingly outvoting men. This is bad news because women always vote majority Democrat, always. No exceptions. We need to increase registration of male voters, as well as turnout. 2.) Latinos (and Asians) gave their largest margin to a candidate - almost 3:1 Democrats to GOP. The GOP needs to address this, preferably by finding more Conservative Latino/Asian candidates, especially in...

As usual, the media has missed the huge story of this election. Their story is that Obama registered huge masses of new supporters and got them to the polls. At first, that was what I thought, but that is not the key factor. I was expecting the highest percentage turnout in 100 years amounting to 130,000,000 voters, but instead as of 5:00 PM EDT, 121,146,964 people voted for Obama or McCain. In 2004, 121,069,054 people voted for Bush or Kerry. Hence in a hotly contested election in which a fortune was spent on the race, there was no big surge...

I agree with D.J. Drummond in his blog here : http://stolenthunder.blogspot.com/ when he said : ----------------------------------------------------- Consider the next fact; turnout this year was down, not up. Down by more than five million votes from 2004. Somebody did not bother to vote this year. But who was it? Again looking at CNN, it turns out that participation by democrats was 7 points higher than republicans. There was a modest 3 percent increase nationally in democrat voter registration from 2004’s tallies, while republicans dropped turnout by at least 15 percent from 2004. So if you are one of those eight million...

Let’s be clear. We've observed no comparison between these ground campaigns. To begin with, there’s a 4-1 ratio of offices in most states. We walk into McCain offices to find them closed, empty, one person, two people, sometimes three people making calls. Many times one person is calling while the other small clutch of volunteers are chatting amongst themselves. In one state, McCain’s state field director sat in one of these offices and, sotto voce, complained to us that only one man was making calls while the others were talking to each other about how much they didn't like Obama,...

Today, Pennsylvania is being hit with the awesome power of the Obama ground game. The reams of voter information that have been gathered over months and years is now being used to hassle, harangue and inspire people to go and vote. On Monday, we prepared the city. Across Philadelphia, 700,000 doors were knocked on. Across the state, 1.2 million voters received visits from Obama campaigners. National numbers must have dwarfed most mass democratic mobilisation efforts in history. For erstwhile cynics the experience is truly jarring. Today the mood is upbeat. I have just finished a five-hour door-knocking stint, and the...

My fellow Nevadans, it is time to prove our worth to the rest of the country. Do not get discouraged by polls... grab and drive whoever you can to vote today. It is critical for our country. Regardless, I'm still trying to figure out some of the statewide issues we'll be voting on today, and any help/insight from our fellow Freepers would be appreciated! Let me say that after 7 years of living in California voting on the wackiest bond measures and such, it is refreshing to read through the Nevada ballot measures! QUESTION NO. 1 Amendment to the Nevada...

Up Against the World Redneck Mother Jerry Jeff Walker He was born in Oklahoma, His wife's name's Betty Lou Thelma Liz And he's not responsible for what he's doing Cause his mother made him what he is. And it's up against the wall Redneck Mother, Mother, who has raised her son so well. He's thirty-four and drinking in a honky tonk. Just kicking hippies asses and raising hell. Sure does like his Falstaff beer, Likes to chase it down with that Wild Turkey liquor; Drives a fifty-seven GMC pickup truck; He's got a gun rack; "Goat ropers need love, too"...

Presidential candidate John McCain will visit Grand Junction on Election Day, his campaign announced today. Details have not been finalized, said McCain's Colorado spokesman, Tom Kise. McCain's visit follows that of his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who will be on Colorado Springs on Monday. Subscribe to the Rocky Mountain News Via:http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=5409#comments

( of course Obama camp has all that illegal, middle eastern, donated over the internet anonymously, money to burn....) Today, 03:45 PM PalinPower Silver Member = >250 Posts Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Florida **My aunt just called, says Obama campaign in restaurant she's at, saying they'll pay her $10 hr. to go out and get people to vote over the next three days!** She agreed. Except that she's going to tell people to vote for McCain ... and get paid by Obama for doing so!!!!! Today, 04:18 PM DrLisa Gold Member = >500 Posts Join Date: Mar 2008 Location:...

Commentary borrowed from another website: If McCain wins this election it's going to be through a strong, grass roots volunteer effort. McCain can't beat Obama on money or boots on the ground. Obama's doing his best to buy the election with his millions, some of it from questionable sources. But we can help overcome Obama's money advantage by going to work for McCain--from the comfort of your own home! You can sign up on the McCain/Palin website to use your free cell long distance to make calls to voters in swing states to urge them to vote for McCain/Palin: http://www.JohnMcCain.com/PhoneBank....

NEW YORK (CNN) – The Republican National Committee is using Hillary Clinton’s past criticism of Barack Obama to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of undecided voters in the final hours of the presidential campaign. The RNC will begin an automated telephone campaign Sunday targeting millions of voters in key states that supported Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary or have a large concentration of blue collar voters, a Republican official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, tells CNN. The official was not able to specify which states, but added: keep an eye on Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. “I...

It's anecdotal, to be sure, but last time I checked, the Obama Brown Shirts haven't resorted to duck-taping Republican voters to their refrigerators . . . yet. From Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot. While Texas will go solidly McCain as it did for Bush, I thought this was interesting. I live in Lubbock, TX a city of about 200,000 that went about 75-25% for Bush in 2004. In 2004 about 58,500 early voted in the county (total county pop is somewhat higher than city's 200,000), this year early voting was about 69,500. That's almost a 19% increase, and you...

On the GOTV efforts, they say that they have spent more money on turnout in the past two months than any other election. The RNC’s ability to raise money has given the GOP parity on GOTV and in advertising. Their turnout efforts grow week-on-week, and may be the most underreported aspect of the campaign. The microtargeting, VOIP efforts, and analytical models continues to improve the GOTV efforts. They’ve made 5.3 million targeted calls and doorknocks in the past week, and 1.3 million yesterday, to persuadable voters, and 24 million to date. That’s a major improvement over 2004 and 2006, and...

Just got this in email: To: Interested Parties From: Rick Davis, Campaign Manager Date: October 31, 2008 RE: The Final Push The State of the Campaign If your television is tuned to cable news as frequently as ours are here at campaign headquarters, you have seen the pundits say John McCain and his campaign are done. And, if you've followed this race since the beginning, this is clearly a song you've heard before. I wanted to take some time today to give you some insight on the state of the race as we see it. An AP poll released this...

Get Ready for Some Football! Message from The National Republican Trust PAC From Scott Wheeler Dear Supporter: It's almost one minute to midnight. We are rolling out our final effort to defeat Barack Obama on national TV and major markets in swing states. The latest AP poll finds that 1 in 7 voters still hasn't decided how they will really vote — that's almost 15% of the electorate. Many voters simply don't decide until the last minute. Our ads can have a powerful effect. This weekend we want to buy ads on both the NFL Football game on Sunday and...

Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote The national development director for Project Vote, an affiliated organization of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been linked to embattled Ohio Secretary of State, Democrat Jennifer Brunner. Karyn Gillette of Project Vote was a campaign consultant for the Brunner campaign, according to information found in a post made by Rick Brunner on April 11, 2006 on the secretary of state’s own blog. “Our candidate had gone earlier in the day to have some meetings and work out of Karyn Gillette's office, but when your correspondent...

Sen. John McCain and the Republican National Committee will unleash a barrage of spending on television advertising that will allow him to keep pace with Sen. Barack Obama's ad blitz during the campaign's final days, but the expenditures will impact McCain's get-out-the-vote efforts, according to Republican strategists. McCain has faced a severe spending imbalance during most of the fall, but the Republican nominee squirreled away enough funds to pay for a raft of television ads in critical battleground states over the next four days, said Evan Tracey, a political analyst who monitors television spending. The decision to finance a final...

Conventional wisdom says that John McCain has lost. Real Clear Politics (RCP) and Yahoo! both have Barack Obama ahead by more than 6 percentage points. Even Republican Mike Huckabee seems already to be campaigning for 2012. I got an email yesterday telling me that if I sent his HuckPAC $10 I would receive an oval “HUCK” sticker for my car. No mention where the money is going, but since McCain’s spending days are over, you can draw your own conclusions. In fact, Huckabee was in my hometown of Charlotte, N.C., yesterday, but he wasn’t making any public appearances. Officially, he...

Update: Fox news is reporting that Obama's pollster is confirming the results discussed here. In a memo sent to the Florida ground operation, he confirms that the polls are tightening up and that GOTV operations are critical and in need of resources in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia. He says that resources are less of a problem in Pennsylvania. When contacted by Fox, he confirmed the McCain release, "McCain is right".

Get Excited about our Victory!We will be holding a final Rally for the McCain/Palin, Randy Forbes, Jim Gilmore and Eric Cantor campaigns this Saturday (November 1st) 12:30 at Victory HQ (Rockwood Office Park 9507 Hull Street Road.) All Poll workers, CCRC members, McCain, Cantor, Forbes and Gilmore supporters need to come,  get excited,  as we fight our way to VICTORY on election day! This is ALL HANDS ON DECK time and we need YOU  and everyone you know! (yeah, even your crazy uncle!! exactly, even THAT uncle…) We are now winning - in Virginia   and in the Battleground states where we need to win....

Call for Volunteers – Escambia Veterans Plan for the Final 7 days of the 2008 Presidential Campaign The issues are National Security and rejection of Income Redistribution. Elect a hero instead of an unknown. The following information and daily events schedule is all you need to take some personal action in the closing days of this race. Winning Florida is a must and Northwest Florida is the key. Your active participation in the next 7 days could be a deciding factor in McCain/Palin winning here by a substantial margin. We encourage you to do the following: þ Vote (the info...

A former staffer for an affiliate of ACORN testified today that they were provided a "donor list" from the Barack Obama campaign. Anita Moncrief, a former Washington, D.C. staffer for Project Vote, which she described as a sister organization of ACORN, said her supervisor told her the list of campaign contributors came from the Obama campaign. Moncrief said she has a copy of a "development plan" that outlines how Obama contributors who had "maxed out" under federal contribution limits would be targeted to give to Project Vote, and that it was her job to identify such contributors. [ snip ]...

And so it is, that we find ourselves on the eve of a historic election for America. No elections are without profound consequences, but not since 1980 has America been faced with such a stark political and ideological dichotomy. John McCain is not the perfect conservative, but whatever his faults, John McCain is now all that stands between Reagan’s America and a disastrous turn toward socialism. With Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in charge of our Congress, and a President Obama ensconced in the Oval Office, leftist redistributionist policy will flow like water. Taxes hikes, profligate spending, and government expansion...

I'm proposing that 300,000 plus FReepers and Lurkers FReep the Vote throughout the land. There are over 300,000 names registered on Free Republic and we have hundreds of thousands of lurkers every week. We have FReepers and Lurkers in every city in America. Now would be a great time to rally for Life and Liberty! I'm proposing an entire weekend devoted to FReeping the vote! Continue your calling, walking, posting, emailing and other get out the vote activities, but please also consider joining or starting FReep the Vote rallies in your town or city. Starting next Friday and continuing Saturday,...

A MODEST SUGGESTION for THOSE MOTIVATED TO HELP BUT WITH LIMITED TIME: Go through your email contact list and think about who you might be able to reach-out to... In the past, I have been loathe to contact friends, relatives and acquaintances with political messages/requests... Generally, this is because, in contacting these folks I thought I would be either: (A) Preaching to the choir...or (B) Alienating people I basically liked who happened to view politics differently than I do. Additionally, in the past, I have always thought — “listen both of the guys running for President are Americans, they both...

As reported on another thread: "Major Garrett reports from Hawaii 10 minutes ago that David Axelrod the Campaign Manager for Barack Obama says as of this morning the campaign had a meeting in Chicago and according to internal numbers they have "a clear road to victory holding all Kerry states while picking up Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Nevada and Virginia with an excellent shot at Montana, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Indiana." They are saying they will get to 400 EV's election night." And I just heard through the grapevine yesterday that McCain-Palin are needing grassroots support in battleground states like...

This is it. Get out the vote -- the final stage of a historic campaign here in Virginia -- has begun. This is when we prove that what we've built is real and can deliver the change America needs. We've talked to thousands of undecided Virginians and formed neighborhood teams to spread our message of change throughout our communities. But all of this work means nothing if we don't get people out to vote. Watch this short video about our strategy to win the commonwealth and sign up for a volunteer shift to get out the vote: We have the...

ACORN'S history of nonpartisan electoral work (voter registration and voter turnout) amid leadership development combined during the March. 2004 primary season to make a big difference in the level of participation of our communities in that important election. ACORN is active in experimenting with methods of increasing voter participation in our low and moderate income communities in virtually every election. But in some elections we get to have our cake and eat it too: work on nonpartisan voter registration and GOTV. which also turns out to benefit the candidate that we hold dear. The March primary was not particularly important...

Home's 12 occupants strike at heart of debate over voter eligibility. small, unremarkable house on the East Side seems as anonymous as any other on its working-class street. But as authorities investigate the rental home's current and former residents for possible voter fraud, it has become a focal point for questions about the integrity of Ohio's election system heading into the presidential election. Some critics of Ohio's election system now question whether lax residency requirements and election laws are creating loopholes for outsiders to vote in this battleground state. By late summer, the house at 2885 Brownlee Ave. had become...

Illegal voters, or just getting out the vote? Home's 12 occupants strike at heart of debate over voter eligibility voters Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:17 PM By Jill Riepenhoff THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH A small, unremarkable house on the East Side seems as anonymous as any other on its working-class street. But as authorities investigate the rental home's current and former residents for possible voter fraud, it has become a focal point for questions about the integrity of Ohio's election system heading into the presidential election. Some critics of Ohio's election system now question whether lax residency requirements and election laws...

Context matters folks. In the piece that we released on Monday evening that caught national attention yesterday people tried to make it about Barack (censored) Obama; it is not. This is about a school system and a textbook publisher pushing an agenda and they are using Barack Obama as a conduit to promote that leftist agenda. Racine Unified has claimed that the textbook in question was "adopted in 2007 and was used during the 2007-2008 school year." In actuality, it was ordered in 2007, when Barack Obama had already established himself as a major candidate for President, the textbook has...

There is a PAC called Vote From Home that is working to get out the vote in Ohio among students, the homeless and other left-leaning groups this election. Now it turns out that they're trying to take advantage of Ohio's loose new early voting laws to actually cast ballots themselves. This, despite the fact that most of them have NO PREVIOUS TIES to the state and are only there for a couple weeks to get out the vote. Michelle Malkin has now picked up on this story as well. However, today is the deadline for challenging registrations in Ohio. Hopefully...

BEFORE YOU VOTE: Consider what is known about Barack Obama and ACORN, though the major news media refuse to report.Here are the facts, from investigative journalists, researchers, and witnesses, tied together with sound reason. After reading, if you agree, please send this to those you know, whatever they currently believe. ACORN and Project Vote are being investigated for widespread electoral crimes in America’s closely contendedstates - potentially hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations and the destruction of those of Republican voters. The door is open for fraudulent votes and election theft.They have driven intimidated citizens into early voting,...

On the eve of the Democratic convention, Trib colleague David M. Brown reported that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of ACORN for services the Democrat's campaign says it “mistakenly misrepresented” in finance reports. An Obama spokesman said then that the FEC reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects. The original FEC finance reports listed the ACORN underling activities as polling, advance work and staging major events.

Voter fraud has been a part of the DNC “get out the vote” strategy for years. ACORN has perfected the art, thanks in great part to Barack Obama’s personal training. But it has never existed on the massive scale that it exists today. How fitting that it is Obama himself who now stands to gain the most by the unethical tactics he trained ACORN “organizers” years ago. The bad news is that this massive effort to steal the 2008 election has a real chance of succeeding, as it has been operating under the protective cloak of the pro-Obama lamestream press...

More hope and change for America... Two different Ohio blogs posted an email from ACORN on February 21, 2008 announcing that Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign. The email even admitted: Ohio ACORN is hiring canvassers to go door to door encouraging voters to vote for Barak Obama. This was back in February during the Democratic primary. Here is the email from Ohio ACORN: GOTV for Obama! Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign. Ohio ACORN is hiring canvassers to go door to door encouraging...

Skip to the end, where he informs the audience that they will not be "hoodwinked" or "bamboozled." Sound familiar? Of course it does: he pulled the same trick against Hillary Clinton in South Carolina, as well-known VRWC rag The New Republic reported at the time: ... As Hot Air also noted, at about the same time John Lewis compared the McCain/Palin campaign to notable Democrat and segregationist George Wallace. One would wonder how McCain's adoption of a Bangladeshi child and Palin's marriage to a man of Yup'ik descent can be reconciled to Wallace's views on race, but then that would...

The following communication from a union organization somehow landed in my email box. ***************************************************** Dear XYZ This Nov. 4, Americans won't just be voting for candidates. We'll be voting for change, or for business as usual. We'll be voting for policies—policies that could favor working families, or Wall Street and Big Business. Business as usual is a powerful force, and Wall Street has a lot of influence. Which is why Working America needs people like you. In the final four days before the election, Working America canvassers will knock on a quarter of a million doors to mobilize our members...

CANTON Thomas Buckius registered to vote last month when canvassers came to his neighborhood as part of a voter registration drive. "I want (Democratic presidential nominee Barack) Obama to win because he'll be the first African-American president," said Buckius, 21, who lives in a southwest neighborhood comprising mostly of blacks. "I think he can do better than what Bush is doing." But Obama didn't have Buckius' vote in the bank yet. Buckius said he didn't know when Election Day was, nor where he was supposed to vote. And while Buckius insisted he'll figure out how to get to the polls,...

CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws. "Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. "The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I...

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's campaign distanced itself Thursday from its $800,000 payment linked to the liberal ACORN organization, which is under investigation in several states where it is suspected of filing fraudulent voter registrations. Federal Election Commission reports show ACORN-affiliated Citizens Services Inc. got $832,598 from the Obama campaign for get-out-the-vote work during the primaries. But those payments stopped in May and the Obama campaign says they should not be an election issue. "This is going to be an historic election with unprecedented voter participation, and we are committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process," Obama...

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is breaking federal law by not giving county elections boards the chance to determine whether new voter registrations are fraudulent, a federal judge ruled tonight. It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States,” said Judge George C. Smith of U.S. District Court in Columbus, in upholding the Ohio Republican Party’s request for a court order. Smith, appointed by President Reagan, said the Help America Vote Act requires states not only to verify the identity of newly registered voters...

Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party's mantra these days. That slogan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win. Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama's favorite "community organizers," and its Project Vote - of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, "I started working as the director . . . here in Chicago." ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post's Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 4, 2008 CONTACT:Press Office: 202-863-8614         OBAMA & ACORN FACT SHEETTHE ACORN/OBAMA RHETORICObama Campaign Tries To Downplay “Supposed” Connections Between Their Candidate And ACORN:“Barack Obama Never Organized With ACORN” (Barack Obama For President Website, http://fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor, Accessed 10/4/08) “[L]ies About His Supposed Connection To ACORN.” (Barack Obama For President Website, http://fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor, Accessed 10/4/08)THE ACORN/OBAMA RECORDObama Formerly Represented ACORN, Taught Classes For Future Leaders Of ACORN, And They Endorsed His 2008 Presidential Campaign: Obama Directed Project Vote And Later Taught Classes For “Future Leaders Identified By ACORN And The Centers For New Horizons.” “He [Obama] says he is drawn...

Barack Obama has strong ties to the group that pressured banks into making high-risk loans.Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)— ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, pressured banks into making mortgages to those who would otherwise not qualify for them, according to an October 7, 2008 article by Stanley Kurtz, which appeared on the website for National Review. As all Americans are footing the bill for the $700 billion bailout to prevent the collapse the financial market, ACORN leader Madeline Talbot—who has close ties to Senator Obama—personally strong-armed banks into making mortgage loans to low income minorities...