The Work Doesn't Stop on Election Day ---- Gov. Howard Dean, M.D.

[Khephra]

November 02, 2004
Tuesday


By the time most readers see this column, unless we have a repeat of the 2000 election, we will know who the president will be for the next four years.

But it is not over. Over the last 40 years, ordinary Americans have become less and less involved in politics. Voter turnout consistently declined between 1960 and 2000; and in non-presidential years, less than 30 percent of eligible adults across America vote, much less volunteer to work on or donate money to campaigns.

This year has been different. There has been enormous intensity on both sides, and a real conviction that individuals can make a difference, even in national elections. Both campaigns, but particularly the Democrats, have rediscovered that hundreds of thousands of small donors giving $25 or $50 at a time can actually raise more money collectively than the so-called "fat cats" and special interests do.

There is more to politics than elections. Thousands of young people have discovered, as generations have before them, their efforts matter. Their actions matter because by getting in the game instead of straying on the sidelines, they are empowered, whether or not their candidate wins.

http://www.sitnews.us/HowardDean/110204_dean.html

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1. Ain't no work going on

in my office.

edit to add: :party:

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2. Amen to that, just the first of many changes to come.