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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 05:52 PM Oct 2012

90 Million Are Planning NOT TO VOTE – Your Mission: Take Just One of Them to the Polls

Letter from Michael Moore:





Friends,



I have a personal favor I'd like to ask each of you. We all know the election next Tuesday is going to be very close. But I've got an idea that could help put President Obama over the top.

I want you – yes, YOU, the person reading this right now – to get ONE of your fellow Americans who would not otherwise vote to show up at the polls and support Obama.

Here's the math: there are upwards of five million of you seeing this, via email, on my website, on the Huffington Post and all over the internet. There are 1.2 million following me on Twitter. I've got almost 700,000 Facebook friends.

I want just one million of you to convince just ONE person each – one person who's planning NOT to vote – to go to the polls and vote for Barack Obama. That's it. And those million extra votes could make all the difference in what will be a very tight election – and it will save us from a tragic return to the Bush years.

Do you realize that there are 90 million people who are planning to NOT vote next Tuesday? That's according to a poll conducted by USA Today. 90,000,000!! It's a shocking number, isn't it? In the old days we'd just label these people as apathetic or stupid. Not anymore. They don't need our admonition – they need our empathy.

The non-voter today knows exactly what's going on, and he or she wants no part of it. They are discouraged, disillusioned, and have almost lost hope that things will change. Many are jobless or working for peanuts. They're angry, and we should tell them they have every right to be.

But here's something else about them: despite everything, they haven't utterly given up on politics. When USA Today asked the non-voters who they'd choose if they HAD to vote for someone in this election, 18% said they would vote for Romney – and 43% said they'd vote for Obama! That means there are nearly 40 million people who prefer Obama – AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE.

The other question they were asked was, what would it take to get you to vote? 85% of the pro-Obama non-voters said they would go vote IF they thought the election was going to be really close and that their vote would actually make the difference.

This is, for all its frustrating logic, incredibly good news. So our job for the next six days is clear: We – you and me – have to bring a little over 1% of the 90 million non-voters to the polls. If we do we'll send Romney packing back to New Hampshire/Massachusetts/California or wherever he's going to build car elevators next.

The time to convince undecideds to vote for Obama is over. All it's about now is whose supporters simply show up. The side that does the best job of literally dragging people out of their homes between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM on Tuesday, November 6th is the side that wins.

Each of us knows Obama-supporting non-voters. They're your cousin, your coworker, your friend from the choir at church. Identify just one of them (best of all if they're in a swing state) and pledge to get them to the polls. You can try to convince them with all the good arguments as to why they should vote for the O (click here), but I think the best way to do this is to ask them personally, just this once, to do this for you. Not for the country. For you.

Then, once they've committed to vote, make a commitment to them: that you are not going to be silent after Tuesday, that you are going to keep fighting like hell (including, when need be, fighting Obama) every single day after the election for them, for you and for all of us.

So, that is your mission – YOURS, the person reading this right this second. Bring just one non-voter to the polls. Easy! Do it and be known as part of the group that defeated Mitt "Bush #3" Romney and gave Barack Obama another term – and another chance to do what we sent him there to do.




Yours,
Michael Moore




P.S. I'll be on Piers Morgan Tonight this evening on CNN for the full hour at 9:00 pm ET (6:00 PM PT) and repeated at Midnight ET (9:00 PM PT) and 3:00 AM ET (Midnight PT). Please tune in!


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90 Million Are Planning NOT TO VOTE – Your Mission: Take Just One of Them to the Polls (Original Post) Segami Oct 2012 OP
His solutions are always so simple. Nothing complicated about what he is asking. sabrina 1 Oct 2012 #1
Great! It will make a difference. I have sent emails to everyone in my circle Segami Oct 2012 #3
Oh, God, please, not a redux of "he's fat, lives in a mansion... WorseBeforeBetter Oct 2012 #2
Lol, I wonder where they all went? Didn't they claim MM was sabrina 1 Oct 2012 #4
Probably handing out Necco Wafers and stale Circus Peanuts... WorseBeforeBetter Oct 2012 #5
Whatever politicasista Oct 2012 #6

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
1. His solutions are always so simple. Nothing complicated about what he is asking.
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 05:57 PM
Oct 2012

I intend to take an 87 year old to vote who would otherwise not be doing so. He is a Democrat so for you MM, that is one! I will defintely be trying to find others who need a ride but as MM says, if everyone just gets one Dem to the polls, it will make a big difference.

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
3. Great! It will make a difference. I have sent emails to everyone in my circle
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 06:13 PM
Oct 2012

which includes family, friends and neighbors and have asked them all to R.S.V.P me if they need a ride to their voting precinct. My list tops 6 as of this post. That will be 6 SURE VOTES cast for Obama.

WorseBeforeBetter

(11,441 posts)
2. Oh, God, please, not a redux of "he's fat, lives in a mansion...
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 06:05 PM
Oct 2012

and flies in private jets."

90M is a staggering number. Thanks for the suggestion, Mr. Moore.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
4. Lol, I wonder where they all went? Didn't they claim MM was
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:16 PM
Oct 2012

working against Democrats or some such nonsense?

If only everyone with money had earned it doing as much good as MM has, instead of putting people out of work or sending them to illegitimate wars in order to get rich?

It boggled my mind to see those RW talking re MM on this forum frankly.

WorseBeforeBetter

(11,441 posts)
5. Probably handing out Necco Wafers and stale Circus Peanuts...
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 08:50 PM
Oct 2012

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to unsuspecting children.

It's always the same crew, and I'm doubtful as to how seriously anyone outside their little circle actually takes them. Michael Moore usurped Al Gore's climate change message!!111!1111 What's the difference between Facebook "share" and "post"?!???!?!?111 Yeah, that was a banner thread.

politicasista

(14,128 posts)
6. Whatever
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 11:05 PM
Oct 2012


Since he and his loser Twitter followers spent so much productive time gleefully tweeting vicious attacks on our President and and true patriotic Democratic senator during and after the first presidential debate (and have yet to apologize for doing so), no thanks.


Would rather support the REAL grassroots activists and Dems, liberals, and progressives that are doing the hard work. Not just talking about it, but actually doing it. There is more to GOTV than attacking/ranting at people when you know you don't have the audacity to say that garbage to a person's face.

Obama, Kerry, and Gore have 100 times more integrity in their bare hands than Moore ever will.
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