ONE MORE DAY UNTIL THE ELECTION

Polls will open in 8 1/2 hours on the East Coast, and by the end of the day we may have an end to this madness. Or we might not know for several weeks.  One thing is sure, the election campaigns are ending. I personally have given more money than I should have.  But I've also volunteered in this election like in none other.  In the last two days I have called 400 voters in Florida. Some of them cursed me; one of them told me he that if he got one more call he was voting for Romney.  But many of them did need the information I was trying to convey--where the polling place was, who to call for problems, when the election day was (!) and other concerns. We are already seeing dirty tricks in Florida, which really stinks.
NOTE--Florida vote totals are not yet in as I write, 19 hours after the polls close.
LATER NOTE: in another type of voter fraud, an 85 year old woman stood in line for several hours, to be told that she could only vote for Romney

Some of the volunteers at Organizing For America have watched Florida for voting infractions, and found a good many, which they reported. One example is that once a voter entered the polling place they were shunted from desk to desk, greatly extending the voting time.  Here, of course, we have one desk to check registration, one to sign in, and then we progress to the voting booths. LATER NOTE: in another type of voter fraud, an 85 year old woman stood in line for several hours, to be told that she could only vote for Romney that day--she'd have to come back tomorrow to vote for Obama.  She wasn't sure when she could get back to the polls because her daughter had to get off work to take her. A sign posted at HQ--"If you have to cheat to win, your ideas aren't very good."

If Obama does not win in Florida it will not be my fault.  I have made as many phone calls as I possibly could, probably several thousand by now.  The interesting thing is that our Organizing For American group has a Australian as its captain. Patrick Batchelor has done a great job; he's even decided to stay in Texas after this madness, believe it or not. NOTE: he is not being paid for his work. He's a volunteer, too.

I will get up in the morning and go down to HQ to work and watch again, and come back in the evening to hopefully hear the returns come in.

And then next, whether Obama or Romney wins, I will turn my attention to whichever leader doesn't represent all my interests.  Someone on the Yahoo boards said that he was liberal socially and conservative fiscally, so that he basically had no representation. Right with him.  So I will have to force my own voice to be heard, something I've never really done.  Since I'm not working anymore, I feel freer--I don't have an employer to answer to.