So it's finally here and its going to be a crazy day. I have a really good feeling about today for this campaign. We have been making the phone calls, giving the money and talking about Barack to our friends for months now. Now we are going to witness the fruits of our labor. Here are my predictions, and please leave yours below. I'm curious to see how hopeful we are for this campaign today.
Alabama: +10%
Alaska: +15%
Arizona: +2%
Arkansas: -8%
California: +3%
Colorado: +5%
Connecticut: -3%
Delaware: -10%
Georgia: +15%
Idaho: +4%
Illinois: +30%
Kansas: +8%
Massachusetts: -5%
Minnesota: +4%
Missouri: +2%
New Jersey: +5%
New Mexico: -7%
New York: +3% (I'm predicting a HUGE upset here)
N. Dakota: -5%
Oklahoma: -8%
Tennessee: -10%
Utah: +4%
These are what I'm feeling after reading and reading all month, following the polls and looking at news analysis. So let's stay FIRED UP! Today we HAVE to be READY TO GO!
YES WE CAN! YES WE WILL! LET'S GO!!
Hey guys,
So I've been under the impression that the Florida primary is not important what-so-ever this coming tuesday. Well the more artciles I have been reading online, the more I am finding out that the Tag Team Duo is going to try to use their spin machine to claim a huge win here in Florida in the primary and polls show her way in the lead in Florida right now.
We need to make a quick concerted effort to get people to the polls this tuesday. You can go to the following website to find out where your polling place is. It will take a matter of minutes and what a shock we can deliver to the greatest Tag Team Duo that pro-wrestling, er politics has ever seen! So get out and vote Tuesday! To help I have put two links below to help you find out where to vote. The first is in article in the Tallahassee Democrat, and the second is the official Tallahassee voting website, which has every piece of voting information you would ever want and probably more. Hope this helps!
YES WE CAN!
http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880112010
http://www.leoncountyfl.gov/elect/
Let's make this happen.
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America. " - Barack Obama
Hey guys and girls. I am a 23 year old graduate student here at FSU. I want to do something for this campaign since I am obviously so moved by it. I am looking for people in Tallahassee that would like to go to Albany GA next tuesday for the super tuesday primary and help our Georgia team out with helping Barack's campaign out. I myself am not sure what it is we will be doing but I have been emailed, as many of you probably have too, about helping out up there. So if your interested in going email me at rdemont@chem.fsu.edu. It'd be cool if we could all meet up in Tally and head up there as a group. Anyone interested? I plan on going either way. I figure its a great way to meet a whole new group of people at the very least.
Rob
So we took South Carolina, and in incredibly convincing fashion. We can't get complacent here though. The Tag Team duo known as Team Clinton will undoubtedly turn up the heat as they feel the pressure of this monumental moment slipping away from what was once ignorantly called her campaign to lose. Well its obvious now that we have the better canidate for the job, and like myself I know you all feel like this country can't afford to NOT have Barack Obama in office this coming year.
So here's what we have to do. Donate, Volunteer, Talk. Donatins are obviously a personal decision and one that I would never impose upon anyone to do. If you can contribute, great, if you can't, that's fine too! Just talking about Barack to people you know day in and day out can make a huge difference. This started as THE grassroots campaign.
The big one that I would love to have influence on is volunteering. If you are in a primary state try to find your precinct captain, find out what you can do. It may be as easy as hanging flyers for Obama or as fun as meeting new people from all walks of life to support this campaign. I'm only 23 years old and I'm not "supposed" to be this moved about politics. There is a moment in life where you get to be apart of something great, and I believe that this is one of those moments for me. I certainly don't want to let it slip by.
So let's go Barack. Bring this thing home! Here we come Super Tuesday. Can you feel it?? YES WE CAN!
"I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago." - Hillary Clinton in the Democratic debate Myrtle Beach, SC 1/20/08
Ummmm this one looks like a rather large oops Hillary...
Photo of Hillary, Bill and the kind old "slum lord" Rezko.
"I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I don't know the man. I wouldn't know him if he walked in the door."
Oh and you voted to pass the bill because you hoped it wouldn't pass... It's starting to look like 1 + 1 = 3 with the Hillary campaign
Whose face is red now? Stop the lies and smear campaign, its obviously not making you endeared to the American public.
So my thoughts on the tag team effort by Hillary and Bill Clinton. Look Bill was a great president, especially by comparison to who we have in office currently. And trust me I understand the desire that both Hillary and Bill have for Hillary to be president. It's the same passion and dedication that Barack Obama shows every day. What really Ginds My Gears is the way the Clinton machine has decided they want to win this nomination.
Ok so let me pose a rhetorical question. As it is now Hillary is seen as a highly polarizable canidate who will again have us fighting red state v. blue state come November. She tries to claim that she is a unifying candiate, and even enjoys stealing Barack's campaign slogans, but how unifying can she claim to be when she is driving her own Democratic party apart with this capaign of misinformation. When it was Kerry fighting for the democratic nomination, I wasn't the biggest fan of him but I knew that as a democratic canidate I liked him better then what the Republicans had to offer up (for obvious reasons), but with Hillary, even as a democrat if she is our nominee I will become completely disenchanted with this November's election!! This shouldn't be the way it is for the Democratic Party!
So I guess here's where I stand. At the crossroads of my party, urgenly wanting Barack Obama to take this nomination and save the country from its downward spiral, but also ready to lose interest in the election all together if Hillary takes it. This is not right. This is not how and why America was founded. I certainly do not want a our party's nomination saying and doing anything it can to get the presidency. So I urge everyone! Talk to friends, enemies and people you don't know about this campaign. Talk to Hillary supporters and talk to republicans! Just shed the light on how these campaigns are being run and why Barack is clearly the better nominee not just for our party but for our country.
Oh and Bill, can it man. You had your moment in the sun, either stump appropriately or go away. Your ruining what we thought you stood for.
Not going to lie I was, like I'm sure most of you were, shocked by the New Hampshire primary. I don't think a lot of us Barack Obama supporters saw that coming, especially because of what the polls were projecting and the momentum we seemed to have.
So I was pretty down about the whole situation. I couldn't bring myself to watch Hillary's speech at first been then I decided that to be a good informed voter I really did need to watch what the opposition said. It was interesting to me to see that the enthusiasm for what Hillary was saying to the crowd came from the fact that she had won the primary, but not much beyond that. What has really begun to strike me about Barack Obama is that even his concession speech was about why and how America needed to change. It may be a "stump" speech but it just feels so genuine. Maybe he's the best politician ever, but you don't get that feeling following his campaign around.
So I guess what I am getting at is this: if you are feeling still like I was feeling the night of the primary, pick the head up! Between the endorsements he is gaining and the momentum he is gathering I feel like we've really got a guy here who is going to be president a year from now. Forget that he would be a younger president, or (gasp) god forbid a black president, Barack Obama will be the first president in a long time who does what he is supposed to do, work for the American people; I mean the guy ACTUALLY cares!
So while Florida no longer matters in the primary, I am interested in getting Barack's name and message out in Tallahassee, especially at FSU. If anyone in Florida is reading this, let me know if you would be willing to be active in this grassroots idea. Or if something is already brewing in Tallahassee let me know.
OBAMA 08!
