* * * EXIT POLLS: Arkansas: Boozman (R) defeats Lincoln (D) Ohio: Portman (R) defeats Fisher (D) North Dakota: Hoeven (R) defeats Potter (D) Wisconsin: Johnson (R) defeats Feingold (D)*
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Bill Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Moore <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:16:08 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Today Is the Day ...from Michael Moore > > Today Is the Day ...from Michael Moore > Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 > Friends, > This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have > brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from > here -- will be the subject of tomorrow's letter. > Today, we have one job and one job only: Stop the return of the bigger > criminal class, the Party of War, the people who (with a few Democratic > enablers) manufactured the very mess we are in. > There is good news this morning: The final ABC/Washington Post poll < > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/11/who_will_vote_on_tuesday_its_m.html> > shows that, among registered voters, people still say they prefer the > Democrats over the Republicans by 5 percentage points. It's only when the > pollsters ask "likely voters" who they want that the Republicans come out > ahead by a few points. > So it's clear the majority of voters want the Dems, but the prediction is > the Republicans will win because Dem voters are going to stay home. > So, our mission is simple: MAKE SURE NO ONE WE KNOW STAYS HOME TODAY. > Here's what I am going to do right now and what I'm asking the millions of > you reading this to join me in doing: > 1. Email, call and/or text every non-Republican in your personal address > book and remind them to vote Democratic today. If they (rightfully) complain > that the Dems have been disappointing, tell them they're right, then ask > them to watch this editorial < > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#39959392> > by Rachel Maddow last night where she correctly lists the dozen or so > things this Democratic congress did right -- the types of things we'll never > see from the Republicans if they take over (equal pay for women act, taking > student loans out of the greedy hands of the banks, funding for our first > bullet trains, boosting veterans benefits after Bush refused to for 8 years, > etc.). > 2. Post a general reminder to vote (and who to vote for) on your facebook > page and tweet it to your Twitter followers. > 3. If you have the time, go down to a local candidate's HQ or the local > Democratic Party office and offer to make calls or give people rides to the > polls. > 4. Think local. No matter where you are in America, there's someone on the > ballot today in your town who deserves your vote. Guaranteed. If you're in > Wisconsin and you're pissed at Harry Reid for letting Joe Lieberman derail > the public option on health care, don't let that stop you from getting > everyone you know to go vote for Russ Feingold. In Florida and furious at > the way the Obama administration coddled Wall Street? All the more reason to > call every single person you know in the Orlando area to go vote for Alan > Grayson. In California and mad about the total Democratic failure on global > warming? You can still change the world for the better by showing up with > all your friends to vote for Prop 19 to legalize personal use of marijuana > (and stop the record numbers of people we put in prison who don't belong > there). > 5. Explain to anyone who's given up and doesn't want to vote today that > Obama was handed a terrible mess that he didn't create. He may now > understand he's moved too slow and compromised too much on the big stuff > that needed to get done (after all, Goldman Sachs was his #1 private > contributor in the 2008 election). But in the last couple months he's made > some good moves -- booting some generals, dumping economic advisor/wrecker > Larry Summers, and hiring new people like consumer advocate Elizabeth > Warren. Things are very bad right now. But they can get MUCH worse. War with > Iran? A genuine worldwide Second Great Depression? A Republican Congress > will spend every second trying to make it happen. > 6. Finally, we must let the Democratic politicians know that our vote > comes with one big condition: If they do not straighten up, get a spine and > do what we expect of them, we will find alternate candidates to run against > them in 2012. And we mean it. Go vote today < > http://pollingplaces.raiseyourvote.com/> , but also sign this petition < > http://www.gopetition.com/petition/40334.html> that I'll deliver to every > elected Democrat -- the "I'm Voting Democratic But I Will Work to Defeat You > Next Time if You Don't Do Your Job" petition, aka "The Democrats on > Probation" petition. Let's publicly put them on notice that we'll give them > just two more years to start doing the things we elected them to do. If they > move one more inch to the "center" or to the right, they will never get our > vote again. And we mean business. > Bill Maher said, "We have a center-right party and a crazy party. Over the > last 30 years, the Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans > have moved into a mental hospital." That about sums it up. But he also said, > "Sure, I'm mad at the Democrats. I'm also mad at my cell phone company. But > I don't throw away my cell phone cause I'm mad and then rub dog shit on my > teeth." We all know this isn't the best situation to be in. So consider this > one last reason to get out and vote: > There are good people the country has never heard of who are running today > all across America, most of them for the first time. Somewhere in this great > land right now, the woman who will cast the deciding vote in the Senate for > single payer in 2016 is running for mayor of your city in her first big > race. Somewhere else, the person who will become the first female president > of the United States in 2020 is running for the state house for the first > time. Their careers will be over and that future will never be if you don't > show up today. Go to theballot.org <http://theballot.org> , find out who's > great and running where you live, and then show up to vote for them. You may > help light the spark that will save our sorry ass somewhere down the road. > Don't just hold your nose today as you go in the booth -- go ignite a future > revolution. The only thing that makes the corporate honchos happier than > paying no taxes is making sure as few people vote as possible. 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