Together we have made history over the last 20 months, passing milestone after milestone and showing this grassroots movement to be like no other in history. This week we’re celebrating another major accomplishment – more than 150,000 events created on my.BarackObama.com since the campaign’s start.In every town across America, there are grassroots leaders – many of whom had never been politically active before – organizing their neighborhoods for Barack Obama. You’re hosting organizational meetings, phonebanks and fundraisers in your living rooms and community centers. And you’re able to do it more effectively using the tools on my.BarackObama.com.Some of you with us early in the campaign sponsored "Walk for Change" and "Turn the Page in Iraq" canvasses. As the primaries heated up, you held Debate Watching Parties, phonebanks and canvasses. Your tireless work eventually helped Barack win the Democratic nomination.This summer you focused on voter registration drives that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the political process and helped recolor the electoral map. You could be found with clipboards wherever there was a crowd – be it the state fair or the opening of a blockbuster movie.On the biggest night of the campaign thus far, as Barack accepted the Democratic nomination, thousands of you opened up your homes for watch parties that doubled as organizational meetings. You were solidifying your neighborhood teams and getting ready to take action.Now in the general election, you’re reaching out to voters – particularly newly registered ones – in battleground states to make sure we don’t get stuck with four more years of the same. Using Neighbor to Neighbor, you’re hosting your own phonebanks and canvasses.We have accomplished so much along this journey, but we haven’t reached our destination yet. To get there, we are going to have to do more in this last month than we’ve done in the 20 months leading up to it.Be a leader for Barack in your community and host a phonebank or canvass. At this point in the campaign, it’s the most important thing you can do. Don’t worry if you’ve never done it before – our tools and resources will help you every step of the way.
Thank you to all of you who have been part of this community, to all of you who helped us reach the 150,000 events mark and to all of you who will help us blow past the 200,000 mark in the next 27 days.
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