Before Sen. Obama's historic speech on Thursday, I tried to get a money bomb/donation thread going, but it didn't work out. Now that the RNC is in full swing, and McCain's campaign has raised $10 million from their religious fundamentalist base in the last few days, let's get a Obama/Biden '08 money bomb thread going.
DONATE TO OBAMA IN HONOR OF HIS HISTORIC NOMINATION on THURSDAY
Also, feel free to post your own fundraising page links from my.barackobama.com in the comments section.
Let's keep at least one money bomb thread on the reclist for each night of the RNC.
2 months.
That's the amount of time we have until the voters decide.
We have 40 days to register new voters before the October 6th voter registration deadline in critical states like Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Let's use the energy of last week's celebration to kick-start our own local on-the-ground action. Take a chance on something you might not have otherwise.
Obama has inspired the next generation - let's do our part to pass on a better country to them. Please sign up for something, and let everyone else what you've found worked well and what didn't (such as the kossack (wish I had the link) who went door-to-door for Obama with a friend and a laptop in hand. Whenever someone spewed some mindless stuff programmed into them by the GOP (say, about Obama's religion, taxes, etc.), he just looked it up right then and there online and debunked it.)
Remember, there are some things that make the Obama campaign truly different:
There are two other breakthroughs that have just come to maturity in the United States that were not inevitable, that required a perfect storm of factors - and the right catalyst or leader at the right time - in confluence.
The first is that the Obama campaign is the first mass multi-racial collaboration in the United States since the Southern Civil Rights movement.
For many of the millions that volunteered, donated and attended campaign events, this was the first time they worked hand in hand with people that did not look like them.
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The second breakthrough is that a critical mass of progressive Americans are learning political discipline again: the disciplines that had been carried like rare seeds through a decades-long desert by the few and the proud that had continued the study and practice of community organizing.
The Field: No More Drama
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Different ways you can get involved.
- Register voters in your neighborhood. There are plenty of events in almost every corner of this country. It's really simple: just click on your state and sign up. In addition, can also pass on this voter registration link to your friends to help them get registered from the ease of their home.
You can register voters at naturalization ceremonies, grocery stores, local colleges and high schools, malls, courthouses, apartment buildings, etc.
- Make phone calls to locate new volunteers.
There are plenty of folks on the rolls that would happily volunteer in their local neighborhood, but haven't been asked yet. You can complete that last step by making the call.
- Pass on basic information about Obama. You can get flyers about Obama at the official resource center. (Here are a few 1-page flyers I made as well.) Let them know about Iraq. Also, pass on the Obama Blueprint for Change.
You and I know both know the media is going to do its best to focus on process stories and never focus on the issues; they're not going to inform the public on what Obama wants to do. We have to do it ourselves.
- Set up a personal fundraising page. Then contact your friends and family and ask them to join the campaign, even it's with only $5 a piece.