Your support is instrumental in rallying support in crucial battleground states like Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, and Nevada.
We have an exciting new tool called Neighbor to Neighbor that allows you to pick up the phone and talk directly to fellow voters.
Visit Neighbor to Neighbor today and help us win key swing states by reaching out to potential supporters. CLICK HERE.
Talking directly with voters about what is at stake in this election is the single most effective way to deliver the votes we need to win. It may be a tight race, but we have something John McCain doesn't: a whole lot of passion and enthusiasm for change. I've seen it in the towns and cities I've visited in every corner of the country. But it's up to each of us to make sure we turn this energy into votes on November 4th.
Don't let this election be decided by political stunts or distractions. Join your fellow supporters, roll up your sleeves, and help carry this campaign to victory.
Make a difference by calling potential supporters in Nevada, Florida, New Mexico, or Colorado -- states where the race is extremely close and your help could put us over the top. Supporters like you are the only reason we've come as far as we have. Now, we're counting on you to get us the rest of the way.
Thanks for everything you're doing.
Friday, September 26, 2008
The Economy Is Tanking and SHE Could Be Your Leader
SCARED YET? Please join us at BarackObama.com and help ensure that qualified and capable candidates are in the White House. The world is not a small town and requires big ideas to bring about REAL CHANGE.
For those with a short memory of what troubles the Republican party has led America into, here is a small list:
-a $1 TRILLION dollar disaster that is the Iraq War (a war based on lies and falsified intelligence about supposed weapons of mass destruction); no capture of Osama Bin-Laden in Afghanistan seven years after 9/11.
-a wrecked Economy
-Enron
-complete negligence following Hurricane Katrina
-lack of Health Care for 44 million American citizens
-Denial of Global Warming
-Failing educational standards and underfunding public schools
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
OBAMA-NOS LLAMA! Bilingual Volunteers from California: Spend a Weekend in Nevada (FREE)
If you are able to spend a weekend or two in Nevada (a SWING STATE), please be sure to sign up for the OBAMA-NOS LLAMA! CARAVANA TO NEVADA.
We need Latinos and other spanish-speakers in California willing to spend one or two weekends in Nevada campaigning for Obama....conducting voter registration and related efforts in the Latino communities in Reno or Las Vegas. Let's be clear: Latinos will win this election! You, and other California Latinos, are the link to make this happen. We will be organizing Latinos statewide, strategically by having Southern CA focus on the Las Vegas area and Northern CA focus on Reno and surrounding communities.
Although Latinos represent 23% of Nevada's population, many Latinos still need to get registered and encouraged to vote in this election. Without that Latino vote, Obama will lose in Nevada. So...it's up to us....all of us to make a difference now.
Transportation and housing will be provided to those Latinos willing to travel on weekends. The basic itinerary involves vehicles picking up volunteers on late Friday afternoon, transport them to Reno or Las Vegas that same night, train them and house them for the weekend work and return them home late Sunday evening.
SIGN UP FOR SEPT 26TH - 28TH VOLUNTEERING IN NEVADA
We need Latinos and other spanish-speakers in California willing to spend one or two weekends in Nevada campaigning for Obama....conducting voter registration and related efforts in the Latino communities in Reno or Las Vegas. Let's be clear: Latinos will win this election! You, and other California Latinos, are the link to make this happen. We will be organizing Latinos statewide, strategically by having Southern CA focus on the Las Vegas area and Northern CA focus on Reno and surrounding communities.
Although Latinos represent 23% of Nevada's population, many Latinos still need to get registered and encouraged to vote in this election. Without that Latino vote, Obama will lose in Nevada. So...it's up to us....all of us to make a difference now.
Transportation and housing will be provided to those Latinos willing to travel on weekends. The basic itinerary involves vehicles picking up volunteers on late Friday afternoon, transport them to Reno or Las Vegas that same night, train them and house them for the weekend work and return them home late Sunday evening.
SIGN UP FOR SEPT 26TH - 28TH VOLUNTEERING IN NEVADA
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Democrats in Non-Swing States: Please Sign up for Drive For Change
During this troubling time when the GOP is literally running outright lies as ads and avoiding all discussion of the real issues that affect ordinary Americans, everyone must roll up their sleeves and help ensure that the Democrats take back the White House.
If you are a resident of a blue/non-swing state (CA, CT, DC, IL, MD, NY), it’s not enough to just go to the polls in your state. Please do consider spending a weekend or two in a nearby swing state; if Obama-Biden do not win in states like Pennsylvania, Nevada and Virginia, we will have another 4 years of misguided policies and a declining America.
Lastly, if you are not even registered yet with BarackObama.com , please do so – it is a great resource for activities in your area.
DRIVES FOR CHANGE (FOR VOTERS IN SOLIDLY DEMOCRATIC STATES):
CALIFORNIA Residents: Drive For Change in Nevada
CONNECTICUT Residents: Drive For Change in New Hampshire
DC Residents: Drive For Change in Virginia
ILLINOIS Residents: Drive For Change in Nearby States
MARYLAND Residents: Drive For Change In Virginia
NEW YORK Residents: Drive For Change in Pennsylvania
If you are a resident of a blue/non-swing state (CA, CT, DC, IL, MD, NY), it’s not enough to just go to the polls in your state. Please do consider spending a weekend or two in a nearby swing state; if Obama-Biden do not win in states like Pennsylvania, Nevada and Virginia, we will have another 4 years of misguided policies and a declining America.
Lastly, if you are not even registered yet with BarackObama.com , please do so – it is a great resource for activities in your area.
DRIVES FOR CHANGE (FOR VOTERS IN SOLIDLY DEMOCRATIC STATES):
CALIFORNIA Residents: Drive For Change in Nevada
CONNECTICUT Residents: Drive For Change in New Hampshire
DC Residents: Drive For Change in Virginia
ILLINOIS Residents: Drive For Change in Nearby States
MARYLAND Residents: Drive For Change In Virginia
NEW YORK Residents: Drive For Change in Pennsylvania
Thursday, September 11, 2008
California Residents: "Drive For Change" in Nevada
For those Californians who feel that they can't make enough of a difference because they don't live in a swing state, please sign up for the Nevada "Drive For Change." What could be more fun than a weekend in Vegas or Reno, mobilizing the vote on behalf of Obama?
Click HERE to sign up.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sarah Palin Gender Card
Given the current state of real American journalism, it's sad that Comedy Central tells more truth than FOX or CNN. Watch this clip from the Jon Stewart show where they expose the Republican leadership for being TRULY hypocritical and outright lying. Watch Karl Rove denounce Virginia governor Tim Kaine last month as having insufficient leadership experience because he was mayor of Richmond (a city of 200,000 people) while subsequently praising Sarah Palin as being qualified to lead the nation because she was the mayor of Alaska's "2nd biggest city" (an outright lie; Wasilla, Alaska is smaller than Fairbanks and Juneau and has only 9000 people).
Please share this with others. McCain/Palin is no laughing matter.
Please share this with others. McCain/Palin is no laughing matter.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sign up for Camp Obama in California
We wanted to let everyone know about the upcoming Camp Obama sessions being held in California.
As you might have heard, John McCain and his Republican surrogates used their convention to attack Barack and disparage his work as a community organizer.
What they don't get is that ordinary people working together built this movement for change and will lead our campaign to victory in November.
That's why we've had such an amazing response to our Camp Obama sessions so far.
Supporters of all ages and backgrounds, some new to politics and some seasoned veterans, have expressed tremendous enthusiasm for the opportunity to learn the basic organizing principles of this movement and become Deputy Field Organizers in battleground states.
We can't do this without you, and there is still time to sign up. Learn more and apply for a Camp Obama session now. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Fact-Check on Republican Lies About Obama at GOP Convention
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In several cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth or were outright lies.
Some examples:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
Some examples:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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