Donate $30 before midnight tonite (Sunday) and get a "ONE VOICE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD" T-SHIRT as well as being entered into a drawing for one of five pair of backstage passes (with paid travel) to Grant Park Election Night Celebration.
Also, Right now, you can get 25% off your whole order or any other purchases from the campaign store with coupon code: 25OFF
Donating now will help the campaign know how much they can spend in the waning hours of the campaign.
It's time to request your absentee ballot. With only 7 weekends left, and the need for you to work the polls on Election Day, now is the time to request an absentee ballot. Here is how the process works – You submit an Absentee Ballot Application. About three weeks before Election Day, your Board of Elections will mail you a ballot. You must complete the ballot and return it before the deadline stated on the ballot. How do I get an Absentee Ballot Application? You can download it from this weblink: http://elections.state.md.us/voting/2008_absentee_info.html Fill it out, write in the address for your county's board of elections (available on the form), slap on a stamp and mail it. The deadline to submit an Absentee Ballot Request form is October 28th.
Thanks and see you in Virginia or Pennsylvania.
SALON has an excellent article on Palin's "preditor control" program to reduce some wolf populations by "by 60 to 80 percent" despite, (or maybe in-spite) of science to the contrary. Shooting these animals without scientific backing is like sending fugitives to the death chamber without a trial - is that the kind of leader we need running our country?
In addition to options for getting policy documents texted to your cellphone, you can also get Obama ringtones. Obama's Mobile info page has links to preview the ringtones, and to have them texted to your phone. If you want to avoid texting fees and have a way to transfer files to phone, you also download them directly from these links (below the 'fold'):
From Sports Illustrated:
According to sources, Barack Obama's campaign is in talks to become the primary sponsor of BAM Racing's No. 49 Sprint Cup car for the Pocono race on August 3. Details of the agreement are expected to be worked out over the coming days. ... Ken Schrader will drive the entry, a Toyota, at Pocono for BAM, which is outside the top 35 in owner points and must qualify for the race on speed. The team has run just once since Martinsville due to sponsorship concerns, and has just six top-10 finishes in 167 career starts in the Cup series dating back to '02. According to sources, the team will stick with Toyota after making a switch from Dodge back in the spring.
While I think it's a great idea in concept (it will be paired with a voter registration drive) I don't think they have thoroughlyu vetted the details, for example, I'm sure there will be some grumbling about the car being a Toyota - though I guess it could be a Toyota built in the US.
UPDATE: It seems that the Obama camp is having second thoughts.
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Once hard working, beer drinking Americans hear this, Obama is guaranteed to win the blue collar vote:
John McCain on CNN earlier today addressing the National Small Business Summit in Washington: "I will veto every single beer... err, bill with earmarks."
WOOT!
It's been a long, long effort.
By Wednesday afternoon, we should finally have Senator Obama as our presumptive presidential nominee having secured enough pledged delegates to prevail at the Convention.
I can not tell you how thrilled I am at the possibility of electing Senator Obama to be the next President of the United States.
Now we move on to John McAgain.
Thursday, the handmade soap vendor at the Riverdale Park Farmer's Market sells official Obama campaign buttons and after I had been looking at them for a few minutes passed on this anecdote.
She said, "Obama is the real deal, do you want to know how I know?"
I said, "OK."
When she had her booth set up at a DC Farmer's Market a gentleman came up to her and told her Obama was the 'real deal' because he had been in sixth grade with Obama in HI and remember that even then if an argument broke out between some kids, Barack would step in and say something like, "we don't have to do things this way, we can work out our disagreements calmly."
No, not the guy currently occupying the White House.
President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, has endorsed Sen. Obama for President of the United States, citing their mutual long opposition to the war in Iraq.
Interestingly, he also specifically noted that Obama is a Christian. I guess Byrd might have been a little embarrassed that many residents of his state were still not clear on that point.
The PGA Player's Championship ended today giving Spaniard Sergio Garcia the biggest win of his career. But I was more impressed by the 2nd place finisher, 'journeyman' player Paul Goydos, who despite holding a share of the lead for the entire 18 holes today, bogeyed on 18 forcing a playoff with Garcia. The playoff began at the signature 17th hole with it's famous island green. A gust of wind caught Goydos' tee shot, sending it into the lake. Garcia had much more fortunate luck from the wind, which blew his shot, once it landed, from about 25 feet, to under 5 feet from the pin, where he was able to clinch the win.
One might think that such a series of events would frustrate and anger even the most seasoned pro. Certainly luminaries as Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Sergio have been known to real off expletives in response to much less significant setbacks on the course. But not Goydos. After the tee shots on the first (and untimately only) playoff hole, Goydos congratulated Garcia and preceded to play out the hole, even though the outcome was all but assured.
And that is where this applies to the current nomination race. Hillary played a great game, but after the results of IN and NC, the outcome of this contest is also all but final. For the good of the Party, Hillary needs to be a professional in every sense of the word, and congratulate Obama on his victory while quietly playing out the remainder of the event and then give him one final hug and walk away from the course.
He only won by SEVEN votes (remember this when making GOTV calls, every vote really does matter) and the four pledged delegates will almost certainly be split evenly, but one of the island's Super Delegates has said they will support the winner of the Caucus, and the voters simultaneaous voted in the chair of their delegation who also gets a Super Delegate vote, and he is an Obama supporter.
So seven votes from the caucus goers nets two additional votes for Obama in Denver, and Hillary falls even further behind.
