Democrats launch a major get out the vote effort for the midterms

[bigdarryl]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060402353.html

[bluestateguy]

1. which we didn't do in 1994

nt

[bvar22]

2. Go ask Joe Lieberman and the Republicans for help.

They should give you something for letting them write the HCR Bill.
Maybe you can reach across the aisle and form a "Bi-Partisan Consensus".

A lot of teachers and Working Class Americans are out of work.
They should be grateful there are no Wall Street Bankers clogging up the Unemployment Lines.
I don't know WHY they wouldn't be willing to help.

And there is always Wall Street.
Those guys should be willing to knock on a few doors.


"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for,
at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
--- Paul Wellstone

[emulatorloo]

4. That sounds sort of like a "Make the Vote Stay Home" strategy

which works out really well for Republicans. Could be interesting this year especially as all the Teabaggers are gonna come out in full force and vote for their crazy teabag candidates.

There are plenty of good Dems to vote for, and I am going to vote for them.

[bvar22]

5. The Democrats who earned my vote will have it.

Those that carried water for Wall Street, the Health Insurance Industry, and the War Machine will not.
I'm too old to fall for that "You gotta support the team" every election cycle when "The Team" has been working against my own Economic interests for the last 30 years.



The DLC New Team
Pro-LABOR Democrats Need NOT Apply

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)

"By their works you will know them."

[Jennicut]

7. Yup. I have a Senate seat to vote for in CT that is very important, keep McMahon out.

And voting to possibly get the first Dem governor in CT since 1991. I would say that is worth it.

[Peacetrain]

6. I knew Paul Wellstone

and he would be the first to get out the vote.. and that is a fact.. Paul was a man of strong opinions and the Devil take the hindmost.. I will never forget the first time I saw him campaign ..was at Turkey Days in Worthington Minnesota.. and I really believe he would have held himself to the two terms..but he also was a man who would not throw the baby out with the bathwater.. he would have been the first one out campaigning for people and trying to get a coalition

He was a much better politician than many give him credit for..

EDIT TO ADD.. that is a very nice tribute to a good man we lost too soon in your sig line :)

[Teaser]

9. this is boring stuff.

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[depakid]

10. Supporting the firing of teachers before the Chamber of Commerce was one heck of a way

to fire up the base, eh?

[eomer]

3. This is really important. My wife and I will volunteer for Joe Garcia.

Yesterday at a breakfast meeting of the Miami-Dade Cuban American Democratic Club, he gave a great answer -- when asked whether and how he was going to woo the votes of independents, he said that we should stay true to our beliefs and focus on getting out the vote of the base who share them. That and his statement of those beliefs, which were solidly progressive, convinced me -- I'm going to help him get out the vote of the base.

Our district will apparently have no Democrat running against Mario Diaz-Balart, so we will help Joe out in the next district over.

Rec'd

[Clio the Leo]

8. anecdotal evidence from PA....

... that as OFA volunteers were canvassing Pennsylvania this weekend, people were coming up to THEM asking where they could go to volunteer.

That's a good sign if its happening across the board.