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Around 10 AM, I left Virginia on the bus...traveling to the Metro Train (subway) into DC...as I searched for coins, a man offered up that last quarter, and said it was because of my KERRY shirt and buttons...and he would VOTE for KERRY...he told me that he came to America from Mali and this would be his FIRST VOTE, and 'all of us are voting for Kerry'....all?....yes, everybody in his community of people from Mali were all VOTING FOR KERRY...everyone....
As I left the MetroTrain in DC, at McPherson Square...there were homeless Veterans sitting and laying in that city park...one man was in a wheelchair with his prothesis legs exposed, and his Vietnam Veteran jacket on...
At Kerry Headquarters...thing are in HIGH GEAR....organized, systematic, with much higher security...and VOLUNTEERS continue to roll up their sleeves...the phone banks to "get out the vote" and "get people to the polls" have greatly expanded, with an additional HUGE phone bank set up near Union Station...over 200 volunteers helped for various times during the 9 hours that I volunteered there today....steady, hardworking, impressive array of volunteers...from all over America, young, old, middle-aged, from all races, and religions, from all cultural groups...this is AMERICA working hard for CHANGE....Kerry buses are leaving DC for the SWING STATES regularly now...people are ON THE MOVE to help everywhere....
today, I worked on LETTERS received from Kerry supporters...entering America's concerns into the BIG database (after other volunteers had replied to the their letters).....it was very interesting....I had letters from a sixth grade class in NY (kids writing: Please Senator Kerry: can you stop the KILLING?... Please find homes for those who sleep in cardboard boxes on the sidewalk in my neighborhood....Please stop the WAR....Please stop the violence....Please help us get books and computers for our school....IMO, it's real sad that 6th grade students are so traumatized by bush* policies...that America has sunk so low under bush*)....
I entered people's phone calls (over 200), entered letters... posting some on the wall in the Volunteer Center...some letters go directly to John Kerry....one man sent a PHOTO of himself and his wife, with a very sad letter that his wife would soon DIE, because of bush* program cuts in medical care....another man sent several documents about his mentally and physically disabled child, the cuts in jeb bush* programs, a copy of the court-ordered seizure of his home to pay medical bills...
many letters and phone calls were from people sending small amounts of money, some told us that they were PRAYING for us volunteers, and for KERRY, and BELIEVING IN AMERICA, and giving suggestions on how to win....
all around me, people were CALLING voters on the phones...voters all over America....the phone people reported that prior-bush* supporters were just NOT going to vote...just like the newspapers that refused to endorse anyone, the bush* voters are telling us that they will NOT vote, because they won't vote Democratic, and they are disgusted with bush*....this may be the WILD CARD, because I heard about a LOT of bush* non-voters from the phone people today....AND I also heard of LOTS AND LOTS of Kerry voters needing help to get to the polls, or already voted or going to vote soon, and America is STANDING UP...IMO, it'll be a STRONG vote for KERRY, with the bush* vote STAYING HOME, a non-vote for bush* (like a reTHUGlican newspaper that won't endorse anyone...the non-endorsement, and the non-vote)....if we all help to get people to the polling places AND encourage our KERRY friends to VOTE...VOTE....we WIN !!!! All Across America !!! Roll up YOUR SLEEVE and get busy TODAY....
I returned to Virginia on the MetroTrain, and then waited for the bus....at the bus stop, a man loudly bragged about being a Gulf War One Marine...while I waited, this Marine continued to brag about being able to KILL anyone around him with his bare hands anytime, and then cried for forgiveness from Jesus...several times in tears, he hugged people who were waiting, and people backed away fearfully....
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