Another Dead Canary

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Nov 1st, 2008 by Joe Newman | 145

I decided that I wasn’t going to sit this election out. If Sen. Barack Obama loses this election, I wanted to be able to look myself in the eye the next day and say that I did everything I could. So, I hooked up with two other D.C.-area folks and drove down to Salem, Va. a few days ago to help get the vote out for Obama.

Salem and next-door Roanoke are red Virginia. These precincts won’t be blue on election night but if we can turn out some numbers here, it may help turn Virginia blue for the first time since 1964 when Lyndon Johnson won the state.

One of the campaign’s rules is that you can’t blog about your experiences as a GOTV volunteer. So, I won’t. All I’ll say is that my feet are a little sore from all the walking I did today. I’ll be doing a lot more over the next four days.

If you’re planning to vote for Obama or already have, that’s great. But you should consider spending some time in the next few days volunteering for the campaign. There’s still time to get involved and we need all the help we can get.

You can find out how to volunteer at the Obama website or you can contact a group like MoveOn.org. You’ll meet great, passionate people, like my new friends above, and you’ll have done your part, win or lose, in the most important election of our lifetime.

Photo by Joe Newman.

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