First lady: 2014 election key

[alp227]

Source: politico

In a new video recorded for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, first lady Michelle Obama says Democrats need to take this year’s midterms more seriously than they did either of her husband’s presidential elections.

The video, her first effort on behalf of Democrats beyond a few scattered fundraisers so far, launches the DCCC’s new 1millionvotesfor2014.com website, timed to coincide with the 100-day countdown until the election.

“When it comes to the midterm elections this November, we need you to be as passionate and as hungry as you were in 2008 and 2012 – in fact, you need to be even more passionate and more hungry to get Democrats elected to Congress because these elections will be even hard and even closer than those presidential elections,” she says in the video, sent to donors Sunday morning in a fundraising email with her name on it that repeated the “commit to vote” theme repeated throughout.

The first lady lists equal pay, immigration, an increase in the minimum wage and reproductive rights as the issues that need to get Democrats motivated.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/first-lady-2014-election-key-109412.html

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[sheshe2]

1. Sad that it even has to be said...

The first lady lists equal pay, immigration, an increase in the minimum wage and reproductive rights as the issues that need to get Democrats motivated.

GOTV2014!

1 Million Votes for 2014! Do it! Your life depends on it.

Thank you Michelle Obama!

Thanks for the video alp.

[onehandle]

2. Fluff.

The DNC needs to call the opposition for what they are.

Racist, anti-middle class, shitheels.

[ballyhoo]

4. Exactly. We are in WW3 right now. Has FLOTUS

been informed?

[Rhiannon12866]

3. K&R! Given the First Lady's popularity, she's the ideal spokesperson for GOTV!

[ReRe]

5. The President proposes...

... and the Congress disposes. Or in the case of the current do-nothing Congress, ignores anything and everything the President proposes. The country cannot move forward on any legislation for The People, because the majority in the Congress does not represent The People.
This Congress represents The Corporation, i.e. The 1%.

[freshwest]

8. K&R!

[lovemydog]

6. Equal pay, immigration, an increase in the minimum wage

and reproductive rights. Four critical issues where we need democratic majorities to make progress. Agree with Michelle Obama. Let's take this as seriously as any presidential election. Let's get out the vote. It's not good enough to just vote. Try and get two or three (or more!) others to vote. Here's the new website launched by Michelle Obama. You can commit to vote here:

http://www.1millionvotesfor2014.com/page/-/onemillionvotesfor2014/index.html

They send you a free sticker that says Dems 2014 if you want one!

[samsingh]

7. she is so correct