This place should be SILENT until Election Day: Pledge Not to Post

[mdguss]

Now is the time to stand and be counted. Now is the time to Get Out the Vote. Make phone calls, knock on doors, go to rallies, hold signs at the busy street corner, etc. It's time to get out there. This place should be SILENT. Everybody should go out into their neighborhoods and Get Out the Vote for Kerry.

Join me in a pledge to not post here again until Wednesday morning. Join me in a pledge to spend every free hour you have working for Kerry or organizations that support him. Join me in a pledge to come back and make a celebratory post on Wednesday morning. Four days can determine who is president for four years. Do not take anything for granted. Go outside and Get Out the Vote!

[Stuckinthebush]

1. I can do both

I depend on this community to keep me sane. Sorry, no pledge.

[Nikepallas]

4. I second that thought, Stuckinthebush

If anything this a place of comfort for a lot of people who are surrounded by Bushinites.

[seaj11]

18. I third it.

DU has become an escape for me. This election is driving me nuts. I like being around people like me. On that note, I'd like to shout out to all DUers: Thanks for being here! You all ROCK!

:yourock:

[Stuckinthebush]

19. Backatcha...

You Rock, Too!

[bigtree]

2. THIS is my leisure time

go figger that

[mdguss]

6. No time for leisure:

From tomorrow on, it should be every waking moment dedicated to Getting Out the Vote.

[bigtree]

12. Bullshit

Folks have to live and make a living. Run your own life. I'm working as hard as I am able. I'm here on my down time. I should be sleep, I work nights.

Big shot. Gonna preach to me about GOTV. Manage your own life.

[havocmom]

17. Ahem, DU is more than a place for us. Plenty of lurkers come here for

real news and useful information. This is a very important function and you do not serve the people well by suggesting we abandon it at this crucial time.

There is also voter intimidation, denial and fraud issues to deal with and expose in a timely fashion. DU is a great resource in that effort!

As an aside: Like Skinner, I will be interested & amused if there are some posters coming out of the closet about their true goals come election day.

DUers: Keep up the good work of getting information out there for the public despite the best efforts of the corporate media to keep voters in the dark about what really goes on in America!

:toast: to the DU and all who sail her!

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. This is downtime for many of us.

Sorry, no dice

[vetwife]

3. I am doing both !

[tomfodw]

5. I'm at work. May I please post from here?

Thank you.

[mdguss]

This applies for the weekend and Monday and Tuesday:

Nt

[H2O Man]

28. you keep posting

even after you took your pledge.

[txindy]

39. Good point

**snort** Very good point! :toast:

[Homerr]

7. I'm posting from work, dorrbelling in the evenings.

[ParanoidPat]

8. Sorry, some of us are trying to make sure those votes count......

......once you get them to the polls. :)

I appreciate the sentiment though.

[Radical Activist]

31. And how are you going to do that while sitting at a computer posting on DU

huh?

[michigandem2]

9. oh please then what will I do while I am at WORK???

ugghhh...I am working on GOTV but I also have a job and would be incredibly bored AND misinformed without DU...

[JudyM]

10. Great idea to work harder in the final sprint , but...

I check in here during breaks, not instead of canvassing.

Another idea for getting out the vote and passing on information - send around the website below- last minute quick and easy ways to help Kerry-Edwards win plus important links and Bush humor:

www.helpkerrywin.com

Check it out and spread the word.

[Grillymom]

11. I can't make calls or knock on doors when I'm at work.

Sorry. But, I help during my free time!

[cheezus]

13. Already doing everything the campaign office has for me

and guess what, it's not 24 hours a day every day through tuesday.

[Lex]

14. Multi-tasking is a wonderful thing.

I would never give up the support and encouragement I receive here. It would be foolish.

[displacedtexan]

15. Who are you?

Some of us work 14 hrs per day online.

DU Communication and Support get us through the day.

[NoPasaran]

16. Hey! I'm goofing off at work

I do the GOTV stuff on my own time.

[fugue]

20. Some of us can't knock on doors or make phone calls

I can't "get out there." I have a neurological disability that prevents my effectively communicating in real time.

Have I your august permission to post?

(Of course I'm angry! If there's anything that infuriates me, it's neurotypicals assuming everyone is neurotypical! That assumption alone makes my life more difficult than the actual effects of my disability.)

[Bridget Burke]

21. Great way to shut down DU

Don't think it will work, though.

[Wat_Tyler]

22. No. I will be posting here.

I mean, I could go out and make people vote, but I live in Canada. They'd think I was crazy, or something.

[wellstone_democrat]

41. LOL

good point. I suggest you do not GOTV amongst your Canadian neighbors! (They may involve the police!)


Hey, I got all four Democrats in my precinct in my corner of Texas to the polls already. If I find anymore hiding out from the Replicant mob here in town, I'll get them to the polls too. Meanwhile, you are the Democrats in my life. For God's sake, don't ask me to sit in the midst of Replicant Central out here with the clamour of "God's Own Special Chosen Man Is Coasting to Victory!" without some sane input from somewhere. I'm readin' and I'm postin' baby!

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. Kick!

Just so nobody forgets not to say anything! :D

[Beware the Beast Man]

25. HEDGES!!!! PASS THE POPCORN!

WAIT HOLD ON THAT"S MY CELLPHONE!

[Wat_Tyler]

27. NO! IT'S MINE!

SIMILAR RINGS!

[Wat_Tyler]

26. I take it he means Alberta Election day, November 22nd, right?

[Magrittes Pipe]

33. I'm certain of it.

NOW SHUT UP!

[Wat_Tyler]

40. I'LL BE DAMNED IF I LET RALPH KLEIN WIN YET ANOTHER TERM!

[omnithrope]

29. This is rediculous.

Most of us can do several things at a time.

[WI_DEM]

30. Frankly many of us work full time jobs, volunteer for the campaign

and post. For instance, I do lot of phone banking and will be doing some lit drops this weekend as well working my part time job. I still think I'll be able to check in here from time to time too.

[fishwax]

32. I just love all these threads telling us what to do and how to think

Someday I hope to be able to manage my own life, but fortunately for the time being I've got a large supply of nannies.

[Donkeyboy75]

34. I'm confused.

May I shower? May I wipe my ass? I think I'd smell pretty ripe by Tuesday, but I'll defer judgment to you. I await further orders.

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

35. Bumpidy....we have the votes we need GOTV now!

The Kerry team has the votes they need now we need to make sure those people get out and vote!

Do what ever you can to support the GOTV efforts...even if that means just dropping off donuts at the local Dem HQ....

I have been told by Colorado Kerry management, that if they had enough people to help with GOTV effort they will win.

It is now down to getting out the vote! DO it....NOW!!!

[txindy]

36. No

Like Senator Kerry, some of us can actually multitask. :eyes:

[liberal N proud]

37. I post periodically while at work.

But evenings until around 10:00PM I will not be on-line.
Tuesday, Nov 2. I will be busy w/ voter protection.

[Hello_Kitty]

38. But I surf DU while I'm phone banking!

I can multi-task!