101 Things You Can Do to Help Beat Bush!!!

[H2O Man]

1- Volunteer at the local democratic headquarters.

2- Create your own campaign headquarters with a couple friends.

3- Write a letter/e-mail to your local newspaper on:
a- the increase in medicare (the day after Bush's campaign speech)
b- education: compare local school taxes & federal aide re: No
Child Left Behind
c- Iraq: is it worth 1000 dead? Where are WMDs?
d- the environment: the federal Superfund program is broke; 1 in 4
Americans lives close enough to a contaminated site to have it
impact their health.
e- home security: has the administration helped secure US nuclear
facilities and/or chemical waste storage sites?
f- jobs: how's the jobless recovery helping the unemployed in your
town/city?
g- college costs: has education become more affordable for the
middle class in your town/city?
h- potential draft: when people enter the voting booth, they need
to think about if they want to send the young people in their
family/community to Iraq.
i- the Plame case: plenty of letters/info on GD Plame threads
j- the Goss nomination: a terrible choice for the CIA
k- Halliburton: are no bid-contracts fair? If you got caught
cheating & stealing on the job 5 times, would you be fired?
l- the Patriot Act: the new ACLU commercials are great.
m- the movie F 9-11
n- about a book: there are plenty of good books being published
that you can comment on.
0- Abu Ghraib
p- the Israeli "spy scandal"
q- the upcoming Supreme Court appointments

4- Write a letter, e-mail, or make a phone call to CNN, Fox, or
MSNBC (or CBS, ABC, etc) about any of "a" through "q" from #3.

5- Write a Senator about one of those issues, and ask for a reply.
Let them know you plan to write to your local paper and to quote
their response.

6- Write a Representative, using the same model as #5.

7- Call C-SPAN and frame questions/comments in a pro-democratic
manner.

8- Get two or three friends and register voters in a low-income
neighborhood, or on a college campus.

9- Send a $5 contribution to the Kerry/Edwards campaign with a letter
outlining your opinions.

10- Conduct a survey, on the phone or in person, and use the results
in a letter/article to your local paper. It's easy and fun. Here
is an example:

This survey can be taken over the phone, door-to-door, or in a public place such as outside a store, mall, etc. Try to get a variety of people from different ages, etc. Survey 100 people. At the top, ask three simple questions: age; sex; and party affiliation. Then ask 10 simple "True or False" questions.

T-F (1) The war in Iraq is going well.
T-F (2) The war in Iraq has made the USA more popular with Islamic
people around the world.
T-F (3) Iraq threatened the USA with Weapons of Mass destruction.
T-F (4) Saddam Hussein planned the 9-11 attack on the USA.
T-F (5) The United States needs a military draft.
T-F (6) I want Bush and Kerry to discuss Iraq more than Vietnam.
T-F (7) I do not want young men from my family to go to Iraq.
T-F (8) President Bush is totally honest with the public about Iraq.
T-F (9) VP Cheney has a conflict of interest with Halliburton and
the "no bid" contracts in Iraq.
T-F (10) We may need to invade Iran in 2005 to be safer.

This type of survey, which allows grass-roots democrats to define the debate, work especially good when (1) conducted by young people; and (2) done in communities with smaller newspapers with a "hometown" feel.

There are hundreds of other positive things that DUers can be doing to move us closer to a victory in November. Please add other suggestions. Let's keep a positive attitude, and win this election!

[lilymidnite]

1. I just made a sticker for my car ..

... that says:

Want your 19-yr old drafted?
Then re-select George II

I live in Salt Lake, and 19 years old is the age when young Mormon men go on church missions.

E.

[LTR]

2. Find 10 people to vote for Kerry

Remember, there are a lot of people who don't usually vote. Get them to the polls.

[mongo]

3. Wear a Kerry button

It sounds small, but people will ask you about Kerry when you least expect it. It's a good way to reach undecideds, and they initiate contact with you instead of the other way around, which makes them more at ease, than say, door-to-door canvasing.

Always have some extra buttons or especially bumperstickers when you meet a fellow Kerry supporter.