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Tomorrow (Tuesday) is election day in 24 states, including: Massachusetts, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona, Kansas, Arkansas, and other states where few of my readers live :)

I'm not gonna have a chance today to write a real post about why I endorse Obama, so here are some links to explain or illustrate why I support Obama.

xkcd's endorsement of Obama
Obama's speech on religion and politics to a religious audience. Long but excellent, watch the whole thing!
Because it works! - Obama's conflict-resolution approach
Former president of Chicago's NOW chapter on why she switched to Obama (short video)
Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters (Andrew Sullivan)
Endorsements from the Boston Globe and from Blue Mass Group
The Choice - why progressives should choose Obama over Clinton
Edit: Lawrence Lessig (EFF board member, founder of Creative Commons, Stanford Law professor) endorses Obama in this 20min video

Geek, Tech, Open Government

Obama plans to have a Tech czar to "ensure government officials hold open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans".
Obama supports Net Neutrality - and understands why.
xkcd's endorsement of Obama

War

Obama's early opposition to the Iraq war
Obama's 2002 speech on Iraq
Get Your War On artist David Rees endorses Obama for his opposition to cluster bombs in civilian areas.

Rule of Law

Obama's views on presidential power & the Constitution
Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees endorse Obama en masse
Judge him by his laws - "Consider a bill into which Obama clearly put his heart and soul. The problem he wanted to address was that too many confessions, rather than being voluntary, were coerced -- by beating the daylights out of the accused. Obama proposed requiring that interrogations and confessions be videotaped."