I share your concern, and hope that everybody at Bilerico -- and our readers -- will continue to fight hard in whatever way you can. You could swing a few votes in your precinct that will swing your state Obama's way. All predictions on the election is that it's going to be close.

Scott, You are so absolutely right. We live in a dream of perceptions. Like, when we won Florida in 2000. Not again!

HA!

I didn't think the picture of me (slightly) smiling when end up right next to the line "So as an Obama-supporter, why am I not smiling?"

They no longer think their donation to his campaign is as needed or volunteering their time as critical.

I don't get it. Is fundraising down? He's releasing Q3 numbers soon and they're supposed to be big. They're saying 1.5 million new donors.

I haven't heard that volunteering is down either.

Worse yet, come election day, that busy mother-of-three may decide that it's ok not to vote as she needs to take kids to soccer practice and she doesn't have the time. Or the overworked employee may decide that he's too tired to get up extra early so he can vote before he goes to work. After all, Obama is going to win, right? Surely their one little vote won't make a difference. Unfortunately, there is no one making the call to remind them how important their vote really is.

I haven't seen any indicators predicting lower turnout than in 2004 either....

I don't know, I'm not saying that people should give up, obviously. But I just don't see any indication that they are giving up. And I think that good polling numbers generally inspire people to work harder instead of less. That's why campaigns hate seeing public polls that show that they're behind.

Your point is valid, that people should keep on volunteering and donating, and that we should turn out for the elections, but the level of enthusiasm I've seen this year from the left is far greater than what I was seeing in 2004. If he does lose or something happens between now and election day, I think we can see what happened then.

Ok, you have me convinced. I'll go to the website!
I have never been this politically interested every in my 46 years.

One of the biggest dangers a campaign faces is voter complacency. When they assume their candidate will win, they don't think they have to turn out to vote. No votes = no winning candidate.

It's a valid concern!

Thanks for reminding me. I'm a 16 year old intern/volunteer for the Barack Obama campaign, living in NC. It's going to be very close here in this battleground state, I can tell. I have a 3 day weekend and I'm committing almost every hour possible, save sunday night to helping with Barack's campaign. I think after this whole ordeal is over with, I'm going to feel very elated that I contributed a lot of my time to Obama's campaign.

Thats why if you can go vote early do so I already have voted its the im to busy and my sides going to win folks who turn a lead in to a tie or yet even worse a loss.That is another reason I dont trust polls many a person shouts loud and hard for there candidate but when it comes voting time thats somebody elses job not mine.So go vote and did I say early if you can after all most who read this blog have made up there minds long ago on who there going to vote for so go do it.

Carry on
Cathy

I'm impressed at how many of you are already or are getting involved.

Well done!

We need to be doing all that we can to elect Sen. Obama has our next president including explaining to our family and friends that a vote for John McCain is a vote for discrimination against LGBT people.

Having McCain and the even more anti-gay Sarah Palin in the White House would mean four more years of no progress on the federal level for LGBT civil rights.

I am taking the final week of the campaign off to volunteer full-time with the campaign. I am already heavily involved with Obama Pride and reaching out to voters in the critical state of Virginia.

In a number of the key states LGBT voters can make the difference and we need to have record turnout. This is crunch time and we need to play our part.

The further ahead in the polls he gets the bigger the target and news he becomes.Just today I was watching Lou Dobbs making a big deal about what's going on in Acorn and Obama's attachment to it.There is plenty of time left for Obama to lose this race just in bad press or false info let alone complacency.

They will steal votes. They will suppress voter turnout from "the wrong people."

There is one response. Flood the polls. Flood the fucking polls! Get so many votes that they can't steal them.

P.s., Your State legislators and judges could make life very bad very fast Your county commissioners could turn $YourCounty Community College into $YourCounty Bible College.

And remember, Sally Kern is a Democrat. There are some bad people on the ballot, regardless of party

Vote for everybody you believe in. Flood the polls!