Feeling Hopeless?

Start making calls.
Start emailing friends.
Use Facebook to add information to people's walls, inboxes, etc.
Use Myspace to post bulletins to get attention.

If you want your candidate to win - regardless of who it is - get to work.  Personally, I've started engaging all of my NC folks (I'm from NC and live in IL at the moment).

For me, it's about getting people to engage in the speech about race.  I have a BA in Race and Gender Studies and for the moment - that's the most important thing.  As I've recounted, I told someone last week, who was complaining about Wright, that if Obama had to pick between winning the Presidency and pretending race didn't exist and talking about it, he'd talk about it.

For you it may be the war, which just marked it's 5th year.

Or the jobs and income that just aren't there.

The need for healthcare, childcare or mental care.

There are so many reasons to make change in this world and yet only one to not: you don't want it enough.

Is it difficult and frightening to talk to people you love about potentially hard topics?  Yeah - but taking that chance shows great courage and as we've seen yesterday - courage abounds.

This isn't a call to slam them over the head or rant at them 'til they give up.  It's a call for you to engage, talk and listen - to really think about what's important.  It's a call to hear their concerns and when there are disagreements, disagree in love.  If there are rumors or untruths out there, show them the proof of the lies.  Don't let email forwards weigh you down because it is up to US to do this, to disseminate the truth and lift up our preferred candidate.

We won't let this election go by without making a change.  No, not this time.