Please vote for Obama in this post debate poll.
I thought the senator did much better than the first debate, and really scored some good points.
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Unfortunately, the democratic nomination is almost always decided in the first few primaries, then the rest of the country's democrats just follow in behind the perceived leader.
In order for Obama to be our nominee, he must win in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The results of those contests will heavily influence the major primary caucus day February 5, in which a dozen states will make their pick.
We need to mobilize activists and students and canvassers to go to those early states and help out, one voter at a time if necessary, to help educate people about Obama's strengths.
Please contribute money or volunteer to travel for this project :
I hope everyone has heard the news. Barack Obama raised more money for the primary than Hillary did. Hillary raised a million more this quarter, but a good chunk of her money was from extra rich contributors making double contributions, half of which was actually for the general election. 50,000 people gave to Hillary, 100,000 people gave to Barack.
On top of that, Obama refused lobbyist or PAC money, Hillary did take that type of money. So among actual normal supporters, Obama collected double the people.
Hello ! Any potential contributors who could possibly get to Seattle for something important, and who may be interested in contributing the maximum ($2300) or near maximum, please contact me now for details of an exclusive upcoming opportunity.
Please contact no later than March 30 by email electionproof at aol dot com (with @ and . ) with the subject heading : Obama Max
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To anyone who is interested, there is a simple web page for the Thurston County for Obama effort. There are photos and minutes from the recent March 11 meeting. In coming months, this site will contain updates.
If you missed the Seattle Obama supporters meetup meeting March 10, or the Thurston meeting March 11, then you also missed the opportunity to get a yard sign.
The next known Obama meetings in Western Washington that will have yard signs available :
Tacoma for Obama, March 18 4PM at King's Books on St.Helens
Young Democrats Convention, April 13 in Wenatchee, Coast Wenatchee Conv Ctr.
Snohomish for Obama, April 14 in Everett, Everett Public Library - 9512 Evergreen Way
Seattle Obama meeting will likely be April 28 at Mt.Zion.
Whatcom for Obama, April 18
Thurston for Obama, April 19
If for some reason you can not make any of these events, but would like an Obama yard sign on your lawn or front window, please email electionproof@aol.com with the subject heading of Need Yard Sign. Delivery is possible to most cities on the I-5 from Blaine to Olympia. A $3-$5 cost defray is requested.
American Research Group poll. March 2-5, 2007. N=600 likely Democratic primary and caucus voters nationwide. MoE ± 4.
Preference for Democratic Presidential Nominee:
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The people are coming out and working hard to get Barack Obama as president, but nowhere near enough of us are giving money yet.
Seriously, it does not have to be big money. The Howard Dean campaign 2004 got its grassroots act together and raised MILLIONS of dollars from $5 and $20 contributions. Your money really will add up if everyone just spends some gum money on helping to fund this campaign.
I repeat what you may have already heard : March 31 is the deadline for the first Federal Election Commission reporting period of this race. Make no mistake, the media and pundits and pollsters all take a very large barometer about the campaigns based on who is raising the most money in this first important deadline.
We know that Obama won his senate seat by spending one sixth as much as his opponent. But this is the big national game now and the rules are unforgiving.
Right now... stop pussyfooting around ! Red button to the right at the top of this page :
DONATE
Give $10, $25, or whatever. If you can, give the entire amount you were going to give to Barack Obama for the entire election. Do it all right now so that he can stay in the race. Let new recruited supporters give him money later when he needs it.
Thank you.
As discussed by a few of us at the tail end of the conference call, there was desire to obtain flyers and graphics etc that the vaious groups have created. This will save much effort and overcome the lack of materials from the Chicago headquarters.
I have created a Google group. It is members only, and I will accept all Group Admins from here on the official site.
Please read the guidelines / rules, so that it doesn't get cluttered and dysfunctional.
Thanks. Richard May
On the conference call, cafepress was mentioned.
I would like to point out to everyone, that Cafe Press website takes a large profit of money that goes to their own business and NOT to Barack Obama, and NOT to your local group.
Yes, yes I know, we want to be visible and have Obama's name out there, and the official headquarters Chicago office has been jammed up with zero output and no orders shipped.
Quite a few of us of us could have made hundreds of shirts in less than 9 days if we had the money pooled in one place. I have no clue why the Obama campaign can't give their design to a major printing company and start shipping.
If we need shirts sooner than that, could we gang up several of the larger groups and print professional shirts and ship them ?
That's just shirts.
In Washington State, I have ordered 1000 bumper stickers from demstore.com at 33 cents each. I would rather send Obama $100 donation, than buy bumper stickers for $3 each that I can get sooner and onto hundreds of cars.
There is popular demand for home viewable Obama dvd's.
YouTube is great for one person at a little monitor, but for the wonderful grassroots house parties where a group of people want to watch Obama speak at the same time, nothing beats a dvd.
The Chicago Obama headquarters has been slow to provide anything, and here in Washington State we needed a dvd for meetings, so I edited together a a punchy 12 minute dvd that mostly contains highlights from the 2004 and Springfield speeches, but also includes part of a brief interview in 2002 where Barack openly opposes the Iraq war, and icludes footage of Obama on the senate floor fighting for habius corpus rights to an attorney and a phone call when jailed by Patriot Act etc.
If anyone would like me to mail them a copy of this dvd for meetings and house party use, please make a donation to the Obama campaign on my fundraising page, and then email me at electionproof at aol dot com ( using @ and . ) and I will send you a copy.
Cheers. Richard. Here is my fundraising link :
The whole game is the nomination. If Obama were the nominee, the whole country would focus on him and see what a sincere, aisle-crossing mediator, uniter, scandal-free, ethically unbeholden man Obama is. He can win if he is the nominee.
To win him the nomination, he must win most or all of the early primary states in January 2008. If he does not win in those early states, he will be eliminated from the running shortly after. it is not fair, but it is true. States with primary/caucus after February 10 have reliably just blindly ducked behind whoever is the perceived front runner after those first states announce their winners.
Every election, masses of volunteers and groups go to Iowa and New Hamshire, and this year a few more states like Nevada and South Carolina. But I think that Obama supporters can step this up even further than usual.
Please support this vital, crucial task :
What's that object becoming huge in Hillary's rear view mirror ?
Zogby America Poll. Feb. 22-24Hillary Clinton : 33Barack Obama : 25
ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Feb. 22-25"If the 2008 Democratic presidential primary or caucus in your state were being held today"Hillary Clinton : 36Barack Obama : 24-
What was a main defining comparison ? POLARIZATION. Hardly anyone dislikes Obama.
ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Feb. 22-25Hillary Clinton : favorable =49 , unfavorable =48 Barack Obama : favorable =53 , unfavorable =30
Diageo/Hotline Poll conducted by Financial Dynamics. Feb. 21-24Hillary Clinton : favorable =49 , unfavorable =46Barack Obama : favorable =50 , unfavorable =19
USA Today/Gallup Poll. Dec. 6 Hillary Clinton : favorable =53 , unfavorable =42Barack Obama : favorable =53 , unfavorable =19
CBS News Poll. Jan. 18-21Hillary Clinton : favorable =36 , unfavorable =36Barack Obama : favorable =29 , unfavorable =9, not heard of =41
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll Dec. 8-11Hillary Clinton : favorable =43 , unfavorable =38Barack Obama : favorable =35 , unfavorable =13
Looking better each day. The more people see and learn about Obama, the more they like him.
...very soon
I have ordered a large amount of yard signs to be shared between the Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma, and Thurston supporters.
Simple design, big white letters on navy background.
I will need to collect $3 per sign for the normal sized ones, but larger contributions ($5 ?) will mean I can give more away to people who can't part with $3.
I also ordered supersize ones 3'x4' that I will need $10 for, and will prioritize for highest visibility locations including highway.
I should have these long before the Seattle meeting on March 10. Please see me for thesein person at the meetups in Seattle March 10, Thurston March 11, Tacoma March 18, or I can deliver in western Whatcom.
I also have ordered 500 bumper stickers that are being divided among the groups.
Hello, I am editing a video for use at house parties. I have the 2004, and Springfield speeches, but there are other bits that I can only view on YouTube, that I would like to include.
Does anyone have, taped off of tv, or somehow ripped from YouTube, in dvd format :
- the "Meet Barack Obama" video from this site.
- the Habius Corpus speech from the floor
- Something like Austin, with big crowds.
- 60 minutes
Let me know. I will pay FedEx for a copy, I need to edit this video right away.
Obama's public awareness is soaring upward right now, so the last of the polls are still fading off that were taken before, or right after his announcement to run. The more people learn, the higher his numbers go. He trails the former first lady, but not to a degree that would be at all pessimistic.
Here are a few matchups that show promise for the coming campaign :
FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Feb. 13-14 (just days after Obama's announcement)Hillary Clinton : 49Barack Obama : 32Unsure:14
Never Vote For : (shows polarization, Obama least objectionable even to FOX NEWS pollees)Barack Obama : 34Rudy Giuliani : 36John McCain : 40Hillary Clinton : 44
- - - - -Quinnipiac University Poll. Feb. 13-19 (just days after Obama's announcement)Hillary Clinton : 38Barack Obama : 23Unsure : 13
John McCain : 46Hillary Clinton : 44
John McCain 43Barack Obama : 43
- - - - -Newsweek Poll conducted Jan. 24-25 before Obama announcement :Hillary Clinton : 55Barack Obama : 35Unsure : 10
- - - - -WNBC/Marist Poll. Feb. 12-15, 2007Rudy Giuliani 45Barack Obama : 41
I have taken the hard work of Daewoo Kim and myself and compiled a much shorter highlights summation of Obama's best achievements. This shorter version is geared to the short attention span of the average American voter, suitable for quick conversation, email, and reading aloud :
BARACK OBAMA :
10 years of senate experience (8 in state senate 2 in federal) with much aisle crossing bi-partisan solutions. Opposed bills he believed were unconstitutional. Drafted many bills that became law, surpassing collegues. In the 2 years he was in majority in his state senate, he sponsored 780 bills, and 280 of those were signed into law.
100% approval rating from: The League of Conservation Voters , Planned Parenthood. The National Education Association gives him an "A" on their most recent scorecard.
Examples in state senate :
Kidcare (added health insurance for 20,000 Illinois children)
Welfare reform (a bipartisan bill passed in Republican controlled senate, generating major headlines)
Earned income tax credit (tax relief for working poor families)Also voted to increase the minimum wage (from $5.15 to 6.50)
Death penalty reform. (He supports the death penalty in exceptional circumstances, but wanted all interrogations to be videotaped. Initially viewed as highly controversial, Senator Obama listened to all sides of the debate, incorporated ideas from many individuals, and the result was a bill that passed the Senate 58-0, and was signed into law by a governor who originally opposed Senator Obama's bill.)
The most ambitious campaign finance reform and ethics reform in nearly 25 years, according to good government groups.
He sponsored a bill to investigate racial profiling by police, essentially second guessing police officers. (By incorporating the best ideas from all sides on this and other bills, he even managed to win the endorsement of the state police officers union when he ran for U.S. Senate.)
Obama was opposed to the Iraq war publically, long before the invasion ever happened. Obama gave a 100% accurate assessment that the war would be of an unacceptable undetermined length, undetermined cost, and undetermined objective, and would result in civil war. This is consistant with the assessment that Bush senior and Dick Cheney both gave in the early 90's as to why they didn't invade back then. The country of iraq was only held together by having a ruthless dictator on top. Otherwise the country had zero unity.
Federal senate :
Obama worked with republican senator Lugar to author and implement a program to locate and dismantle stray Russian WMD's including shoulder fired missiles and antipersonnel mines that were left over from the cold war after the disbanding of the USSR. This was sensible, low cost, and actually resulted in an america safer from terrorism. Some terrorists or rogue nation could have gotten those weapons. So don't let anyone tell you Obama isn't effective in the war for security against terrorism.
Senator Democratic leader Harry Reid has designated Barack Obama as the Democrats' point man on ethics, citing three reasons for his selection: whenever Obama walks into a room, everyone stops talking and listens to what he has to say; Obama is known for having unquestionable ethics and integrity.
Perhaps his most impressive accomplishment in the U.S. Senate happened on January 18, 2007. That is when the Senate passed a major ethics/lobbying reform bill. (Senator Obama had voted against a prior ethics reform bill that he said wasn't tough enough.) Newspapers give Senators Obama and Russ Feingold significant credit for insisting that this latest ethics bill included tough measures. Obama risked some political capital to get this bill passed. The bill bans gifts/meals from lobbyists; puts an end to subsidized corporate jets; requires full disclosure of earmarks (who are the earmarks for, and for what purpose); places restrictions on retiring members of Congress going immediately into lobbying; requires lobbyists to disclose bundling of contributions to Congress, candidates or committees
While touring Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian territories, he told Palestinian Authority President MahMoud Abbas that US would never recognize Hamas leaders until they renounced mission to eliminate Israel. In Africa, he publicly took an AIDS test to show people in Africa that it was ok and even socially responsible to have an AIDS test.
Senator Obama cosponsored the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, S-2611, sponsored by John McCain. It passed the Senate on May 25, 2006, by a vote of 62-36. Under this bill, undocumented persons who have been in the country five or more years would only be allowed to stay and apply for citizenship, provided they pay back taxes, learn English and have no serious criminal records. 2 million undocumented persons who have been in the United States for less than two years would be ordered home.
He has also called for increased fuel efficiency standards (3 percent every year for 15 years). He's encouraged use of ethnanol as an alternative fuel.
In his first first year as U.S. Senator, Obama held 39 town hall meetings throughout Illinois, and in senate, sponsored 152 bills and resolutions, and cosponsored 427 more.
All this as a freshman senator.
Background :Obama worked for $13,000 a year in inner city Chicago helping people. His program registered 150,000 people to vote. When he graduated as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, he passed up over 600 high money offers at law firms and worked for a civil rights law firm at a fraction of the pay.
The process for selecting our nominee for president is VERY flawed. The flaw is that the first few primary / caucus results (previously Iowa, New Hampshire) tie up the whole game irreversibly, and then the other state's results are pointless. In 2004, many precinct caucus/primaries around the country involved no discussion, just people showing up with very little knowledge of the candidates. Some people chose Kerry based on his speaking and positions, but many chose him based on very little more than his having won Iowa and New Hampshire (and Dean having screamed the week before).
2008 is too important, Obama is too important to let it slip away. We must work within that broken system. If we really really want Obama as our next president, unfortunately we must focus on the people who will attend in those early primary states. If you live in a state that has a later primary, it will likely be too late, even if you get your whole precinct to choose Obama.
Several states are changing their primary dates around, so be sure to check, but a recent version of the states that are the ones to travel to, contact, and support advance teams to, are :
January 14, 2008 - Iowa January 19, 2008 - Nevada January 22, 2008 - New Hampshire January 29, 2008 - South Carolina February 5, 2008 - Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas[3], Delaware, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma,Utah
If Obama can win just a few of these, then a very unusual thing could happen, ...a competitive dead heat continuing on past the first states.
And remember, anyone who can prove that they reside in these states, and has a valid voter registration card, can be a delegate vote for Obama at these caucus and primaries. The key is to outnumber the delegates for Hillary. The whole game is the primary season. Obama will sell himself just fine if we can get him the nomination.
Move to Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, SC, (or others like Rhode Island if they get their date bumped forward) or just visit there and recruit believers to attend and be counted. If you can't go, then $ponsor someone else who can go ! ...or get onto chats and message boards that have average Iowans and folks from those early states. Direct these people to YouTube to see Barack's awsome message and sincerity.
