Of course, the mid-term elections occur this Tuesday. We have already early voted and have been fairly active with MoveOn.org in making calls to recruit other callers and we are also hosting a Rock The House (and Senate) calling party this weekend. All the polls seem to point to significant Democratic gains and I pray that this is the case. However, I can't even contemplate what it will mean if the Republicans retain control of both chambers of the legislature. When Bush had the hubris to claim a mandate with 51% of the vote in 2004, I put a bumper sticker on my car that reads: "Mandate, My Ass!". It remains there today. However, if the voters see fit to keep the Repugs in power (without another election being Diebolded), then it seems that it may be a mandate and that the U.S. deserves what it gets.
Lord, deliver us from evil.
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I recommend that you call on behalf of your local Democratic Party instead of MoveOn.org.
MoveOn.org will turn off a lot of people because of the scandal about it welcoming racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, and anti-Evangelical hate speech on its Action Forum. By hate speech I do not mean criticism of, for example, Israeli policies or pro-life politics but actual slurs directed at Jews, Blacks, Catholics, and Evangelical Christians.
Re: the "Diebolding" of the election, the MoveOn.org Action Forum also had a posting that accused Evangelical Christians of helping to steal the election. Really nice crowd that MoveOn attracts.
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