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1. You have heard about new registered voters excited about voting for Obama. But you, dear reader, can counter this by simply showing up or voting absentee. Remember, it is turnout as a percentage that is key. The needed votes are there in the pool of registered voters. In fact, they are there to give a landslide. You just have to turnout. Too often, too many registered Republicans don't show up to vote.
2. If you are a practicing Catholic or Evangelical, it is a form of obedience to God to do the right thing. Don't buy into the idea that God stays out of politics. Go listen to "Does God Take Sides in Politics" by Greg Koukl at www.str.org if you want to hear a convincing argument that this is so.
3. If you block out the time just as you would a dentist or doctor appointment, and isn't it more important than those, you will have no problem following through. Make no excuses. Don't say your vote doesn't count. It does.
4. If you can't make your way through all the ballot, absentee or in person, it is okay to just fill out what you know. In California, if you do no more than vote Yes on Prop 8, Yes on Prop 6, and McCain and Palin, you will have done a lot. Don't worry about leaving races blank. Your ballot is fully acceptable even if it it isn't all filled out.
5. If you live in a swing state, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Colorado, it is even more vital you vote. Don't leave it to others. The best revenge to the MSM is to prove them wrong. They are counting on a typical Republican turnout, while cheerleading swollen Democratic registration. Surprise them.
6. Bring your kids if no one is available to watch them.  They will have fun. Go separately from your spouse if he or she is stuck at work, or running late.
7. If this is your first time voting, don't be shy.  Poll workers are there to help.
8. If you are approached by someone asking you if you would like to participate in an exit poll, say yes. This cuts down the chance there will be skewed exit polls that might favor Obama and discourage people who planned on voting later in the day. It is guessed that Democrats fill out exit polls more often, thus skewing the results. It has also been posited that young exit pollsters polling during the Bush-Kerry election seemed to find certain types of voters more approachable. These more approachable people tended to be Democrats, thus a skewed poll.
9. If you get a call from a polling company, take it. This may make a more accurate poll. It has been said that Democrats are more likely to take phone polls than Republicans, thus a skewed poll can result.
10. There is nothing greater you can do for your country and your children than to vote this year. Think of the investment your vote represents in a safe, secure, and strong America.  There are millions of people who never miss the chance to vote against your values.  They take it very seriously to defeat you.  Defeat them, instead, by voting.
11. Think of your vote as preventive medicine. You vote forestalls a host of ailments and disease a country can experience.

1. The LA Times can release a full transcript of the tape.  Apparently, this would not violate the source's request that the video not be released.
   
2. The LA Times can approach the source and request a reversal of his request or to accede to a request to sit in on an edit of the tape that will provide the gist of the toast and Obama comments but will not reveal what he didn't want revealed.

1. If it was your intention to skirt the legally allowed limit per person, this is how you could do it.  There can be no other reason, I can think of, to disable the security features.   Why would, as the Obama campaign is stating, you rely on human verification later, when a computer can do all the work before hand?  Word is coming in that they are not doing the human verification, anyway.
   
   
2. Unless I am missing something, by disabling the security features, they are opening themselves up to the real garden variety credit card fraud - this means any and every credit card would be accepted - yours, mine, anyone's.  It would then be up to you to fight to get it off your credit card statement.  In the era of identity theft, would you want to do business with a company that didn't use basic security checks?
    
3. Why are the credit card companies allowing this?  Surely it opens them up to fraud.  Could it be they are unaware?  Could it be the fees they are making are causing them to look the other way?  Could it be Senator Biden, dubbed the The Senator from MBNA by Byron York, is their guy and their guy at Number One Observatory Circle couldn't be bad?  Is this a common practice?  What is their position?  I want to be fair.  As Prager always says, "Tell the truth first, then give your opinion."

The McCain campaign should hammer on this, especially with the American voter's fear of identity theft.  This is something they can relate to.  Obama has already gone back on his promise to accept public financing.  This multiplies the offense if it is true.

1. A huge spike in gasoline prices - the public was frustrated and furious.  The Republicans and their Drill Baby Drill and Drill Here Now battle cries won the day.
2. Russia invades Georgia.  This focused the voter's eye on what a dangerous world we live in if Russia has designs on empire again.  McCain wins this one.
3. The financial crisis.  As calmer heads are prevailing, sometimes the same heads that initially panicked, we are seeing some return to normalcy.  The Dems and Obama clearly triumphed here as the public seemed to be blaming President Bush, even though Fannie's and Freddie's benefactors were clearly pointed out as Democrats, and the whole world was going through the same crisis.  What first seemed horrible timing, one can see how by November 4th, voters will be sufficiently calm to realize it is a volatile world and they can't risk an Obama presidency.

John McCain and Sarah Palin should remind the voter what he has been through this past year and how quickly today's financial crisis may turn back to high gasoline prices or a move from Russia or Iran.  Under Obama there will likely be no new nuclear plants, no offshore drilling, and a weak front to present to Putin. 

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