It’s time to put on your volunteer hats!

I don’t think this election is in the bag at all. I was in Bethlemen, PA on Saturday. Most people seemed receptive to Obama. The campaign seems very organized on the ground. But despite whatever the polls in the media say, the campaign’s internal polling shows Obama up by only a few points.

Last week the Times ran a little story charting the percentage that candidates were up in the polls toward the end of October versus what they actually won or lost by. The most frightening number to me was from the campaign for Clinton’s second term when he was up by 30 points toward the end of October but only won by 16 points.  Right now Obama is only up 14 points in the polls which is the same percentage that Clinton lost between the end of October and election day. And with Obama being a relatively unknown quantity to most people and all of the fear mongering that is going on, who knows what will actually happen on election day.

I cannot look at this as anything but a very tight race, no matter what the polls today say. And that is where you and I come in.

I hate to play the fear or the guilt card, but think of how you will feel if you wake up on November 5th with McCain as president and you did nothing to stop it?

Please forgive me if I am being a pompous ass in reminding you of things that you are already taking care of. But this is a real do or die moment in American democracy. A McCain presidency is simply unthinkable.

The most important thing you can do is volunteer. Most of the volunteer efforts are being handled by the campaign this year. Go to MyBarackObama.com to sign up.