Well, you're in Colorado, which is a Super Tuesday state. The main job of a campaign on election day is to get its already-identified supporters to the polls. As many wise campaigners have said, "it's not the candidate who has the most supporters who wins; it's the candidate who has more supporters who go to the polls and vote."
I have known cases where candidates with clearly more supporters have lost elections because their voters didn't turn out at high enough a rate. That's especially a risk for Obama, because he wins heavily among under-25 voters who have no habit of voting and turn out at dismally low rates, while Clinton wins heavily among over-65, many of whom never miss an election no matter how small.
On election day, the campaign doesn't need your help persuading anyone nearly as much as it needs your help reminding and bugging and asking and even pleading with identified supporters to get them to actually vote. If you can lend some time making phone calls or going door to door, that's where it's at.
But, do remember to ask your close friends and relatives. You have more influence on them than anyone, and you could still persuade them. Find some good links or passages that you think will matter to them, add a little bit of your own, and email each one individually, tonight or early tomorrow. Your parents and close relatives, especially.
After your state's primary is over, then there will be other things to do, but other than sending something to people you know well, right now it's all about getting out the vote, not persuasion.
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Date: 2008-02-05 06:29 (UTC)I have known cases where candidates with clearly more supporters have lost elections because their voters didn't turn out at high enough a rate. That's especially a risk for Obama, because he wins heavily among under-25 voters who have no habit of voting and turn out at dismally low rates, while Clinton wins heavily among over-65, many of whom never miss an election no matter how small.
On election day, the campaign doesn't need your help persuading anyone nearly as much as it needs your help reminding and bugging and asking and even pleading with identified supporters to get them to actually vote. If you can lend some time making phone calls or going door to door, that's where it's at.
But, do remember to ask your close friends and relatives. You have more influence on them than anyone, and you could still persuade them. Find some good links or passages that you think will matter to them, add a little bit of your own, and email each one individually, tonight or early tomorrow. Your parents and close relatives, especially.
After your state's primary is over, then there will be other things to do, but other than sending something to people you know well, right now it's all about getting out the vote, not persuasion.