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I checked real clear politics last night and without the toss up states colorado is going to go to Obama. I'm pretty excited = ) but of course that is only an estimation. I really hope all the Obama supporters go out and vote, I'm really nervous about the election

Send A Farmer To Congress

I will soon be posting a really cheesy picture of me with John Salazar up here. I got to meet him today at La Bamba. It was an interesting experience. We had a good turn out and the restaurant was packed. I've learned that most of the time the locations chosen are smaller, that way they look really packed. My dad got to go with me and I found out that John Salazar and my dad knew each other .... He was a very nice man and he really tried to push people to get involved the last 6 days of the election but alas only one person decided to volunteer for us. The top issues that were brought up tonight were.

• energy independence
• war in Iraq
• economy

Salazar stressed that if the Democrats lose this election it is their fault, we can't afford to have the mentality that we've already won, we need to work hard until the end.

15

Just read in the newspaper about the plot to kill Obama. I knew that would be an issue, my sister keeps bringing it up to me .... my dad and I both agree that we can't allow fear to control who we vote for. I'm so glad those crazy skinheads got caught. I read that if they weren't able to kill Obama than they planned on killing 120 black students in Tennessee. Our country is so scary sometimes.

I was watching BBC News and they said that McCain's favorable rating seems directly related to the DOW. If the shares go up so will McCain's ratings. hmmm .. some food for thought.

John Salazar anyone ?

ATTENTION ATTENTION

John Salazar is going to be at La Bamba on Main St. tomorrow at 5:00. I know he isn't as cute as Mark Udall but it should still be a good time. I will working at the event, if anyone wants to start volunteering PLEASE come. We really need more young people volunteering. Let's go out and show those old people that we aren't apathetic.

Thanks for chosing 2nd hour over us ....

I was watching the evening news with Katie Couric and it mentioned that the polls showing Obama's strong lead is probably not accurate. My mom and I were thinking and we hope that democrats don't get too comfortable and feel like they don't need to vote because Obama will obviously win. Last Monday I mailed in my mail in ballot, I am pretty excited = ) I made my dad help me and we both looked through the little blue book so I had an idea of what all the amendments were about. I really didn't have strong opinions on a lot of them except for amendment 48.

FYI - I hear a HUGE shipment of Obama's signs came in last week ( over 4,000). Can anyone verify this ? I heard the Obama Headquarter on Grand has tons. I got one so now there are 2 houses in my neighborhood with Obama signs and 3 with McCain.

[Funny Story]
This weekend I was hanging out with me extremely Republican boyfriend and we saw this van driving around Main Street with these signs on the van saying "McSame" and these two blow up dummies hugging, one with the face of McCain and the other ... Bush. This is the first year that I've seen so many people voicing their political opinion so strongly. I also saw this man driving around town with a bumper sticker that said "Obama should be the president of Afghanistan NOT American." The best thing I've seen so far though was a mini van that said " Vote for Hope, this mama's for Obama." lol.

1:30

Closing remarks were interesting. The question asked was "What do you not know , how will you learn it." Obama's answer was confusing, McCain's answer was very straightforward. The debate went very well. McCain repeatedly said that Obama lied constantly and questioned Obama's character. There were not a lot of personal jabs. Barack Obama was not looking for a fight and McCain definitely was. Obama was more relaxed in this debate, McCain seemed pretty nervous and what was up with trying to bring Tom into the debate ? Leave the moderator alone, lol.

Who won ? I liked what Obama had to say.

Debate

Don't you love how no one looks happy in the background of the debate. They are probably told not to show favoritism but come on, there are people yawning constantly and most of them look uninterested. I'd love to be there.

• I love the idea of incentives for being "green"
• Obama keeps on saying that the government should be like a family on a tight budget, when we don't' have a lot of money we should cut down on things (he used the allusion of a family cutting down on eating out when money is tight.)
• McCain says "my friends" constantly. McCain said that Obama wants to raise taxes and that 50% of those increases will go to small businesses. He also said that he is not going to give tax cuts to the wealthy.
• Obama's tax plan- "I want to provide a tax cut for 95% of Americans. Only a few percent make 200,000 dollars a year, they will get tax cuts with my plan." Obama says McCain will give CEO's tax cuts, God debates are confusing !!!!!!
• Can I keep a tally of the number of times McCain says "my friends." lol. I actually agree with McCain on some of these issues. This is why politics are so confusing. Now McCain says Obama has never cut taxes.
• McCain says our planet is damaged. He disagrees with the Bush Administration on climate change. He says nuclear power is our answer. What about wind energy ? Solar energy ? I heard this women talking about it on Sunday and she said she refused to vote for someone who only thought nuclear power was the answer .....
• Obama's Energy Plan - Solar energy, wind energy, hydro power , and nuclear power as a possibility. "we cannot drill ourselves out of this crisis." I TOTALLY AGREE !
• Basically I think both of these candidates will be better than Bush ....

I grew up in a household of democrats. For this debate I am trying be open minded but I am having a hard time. I hear my parents constantly talking about how Obama is the right choice and I volunteer at FC so I hear the democrats side more than the republicans. I have this stereotypical view of republicans and I apologize. Some of you do care about the environment and are very educated. I wish I could talk about politics with non democrats without feeling like I have to defend my every statement.

Okay neither of them are paying attention to time, Tom is getting pissed. OMG ! Obama just follow the gosh darn time limit ! McCain follow the time limit !

Tuesday

It seems like I have been an intern at Forward Colorado FOREVER ! But in actual reality I've only earned 40 volunteer hours .....

THERE IS ONLY 28 DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION !

GOTV (get out the vote) started here at the office a couple days ago. We are really trying to get more people involved so if ANY of you guys want to come volunteer once or twice a week that would be amazing = ) You can go canvassing and phone bank. You guys would totally like canvassing, you're out in the fresh air talking to people about their political views. It is the most effective way to persuate voters and has a higher contact rate then phone banking which is less than 30 %. For instance we just had a lady come in for 5 hrs, she dialed 100 phones and only contacted 6 !

Just a side note : I am here in the office all myself ...... this why we need more people my age volunteering that way I won't be alone ... in an office ... on North Ave ..... Did I mention Dairy Queen is REALLY REALLY close ?

Sunday

Last Sunday Danielle Glover (our Regional Field Director) took me along to two Mark Udall events. I guess I had the most volunteer recruitments so as my price I got to work for 12 hrs at Udall events, lol. No it was actually pretty fun, I got to meet Mark Udall and his wife Maggie Fox AND his very attractive manager. Udall and his wife are very charming in person. Maggie tries to stay away from the spotlight, for instance while we were at this small and very "hip" coffee shop in Carbondale Maggie stayed in the other section while Mark and 100 of his supporters were in the back. Udall talked about why he voted twice against the new bail-out. He said he didn't believe it would solve any of the problems, it meant more money being spent. He also talked about water rights and getting the USA out of Iraq. I will admit that sometimes he sounded too cheesy, every event he would say the same jokes and tell the same stories. The weirdest one involved his mother. Apparently she got in a horrible accident when Mark was running for Congress and before the paramedics could rescue her from her car she made them promise her that they would vote for Mark. He said quote "you all have to be like my mother."

I happened to watch Fox news a couple days ago ( I know you're shocked Mr.Coit) and they had a program that was all about how Obama is linked to religious crazy people, like his pastor etc ... I got very annoyed with the program so I shut it off.