MoveOn's Call For Change (GOTV) campaign - "the dishes can wait"

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Dear friend,

Forget the laundry. Let the dirty dishes pile up in the sink. Break out the TV dinners and tell the kids to do their own homework. This week, we've got some calls to make.

We've got seven days—that's 168 hours—to make our mark on this election. And for everything we care about—our kids, our Constitution, our world—we've got to make it huge.

We're off to a strong start. Yesterday we smashed our goal and topped 83,555 calls to Democratic-leaning folks who might not vote. It's important work—work that could change the outcome of some races. And that means we've gotta all roll up our sleeves and dive in.

Can you chip in an hour—or half an hour—or even twenty minutes to make some calls? It's time to jump in. Just sign up here:

http://pol.moveon.org/phone/volunteer/

The calls work. We know, because we've tested them. Real people calling real people really makes a difference. Paid calls just aren't as effective.

But these calls also change people's lives.

Because this week, a MoveOn volunteer will dial a phone and talk to a woman who hadn't been thinking about voting. Maybe she's a single mother: She works, and then comes home to take care of the kids.

She tends to vote for Democrats, but she just doesn't have much time in her life for politics. But when a MoveOn volunteer contacts her, she'll listen carefully.

And we'll tell her what is possible: a better education and real health care for her kids, a Congress that'll do something about Iraq, an America in which no one ever has to go to sleep at night hungry. And she'll smile, and at the end of the conversation, she'll say, "OK. I'll do it. I'm going to vote."

She might be the one. She might be the voter who tips the balance for her race—heck, the voter that puts the whole House into Democratic hands.

And this week, we have the opportunity to show her—and hundreds of thousands of people like her—their own power.

http://pol.moveon.org/phone/volunteer/

What are you going to remember in 10 years? The memo you rewrote for LuAnn in accounting? The lecture you slept through on high modernism? Or the way it felt watching the returns come in on Tuesday night, knowing that our national nightmare had come to a close and you had helped put us over the top.

Take it from us: The dishes can wait.

Thanks,

–Adam, Natalie, Carrie, Karin and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

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