Stressed by Election 2008? Top 11 Things You Can Do To Gain Control & Make a Difference in Election 2008
Stressed by Election 2008? Top 11 Things You Can Do To Gain Control & Make a Difference in Election 2008
The goal of this email is to go viral. I am sending it to almost 2000 people, between Yahoo Groups, homeschool groups and friends. I am posting it on all of my blogs.
The Goal – get 1 million people working NOW in the next 6 days to turn this election around.
The polls are tightening - we can absolutely do it! This email/blog post will begin with you…will you choose to send this to your Yahoo Groups, your friends and post it on your blogs? If the 2000 people who originally receive this send this to 20 people, or 200 people, or all of their Yahoo Groups, we can make a huge difference!
Many of us are stressed by Election 2008. The minutes drip by as we agonize over the most important vote in our lifetime. A charismatic candidate with unlimited money and liberal ideas veering off toward socialism vs. the POW fighter pilot who has taken on the establishment, balked both parties, relentless about national security and supporting our troops, realizes that energy is a top priority and had the courage to ask Sarah Palin to join his ticket. Both are fallible men who make mistakes. Neither is perfect. Quite frankly, neither is my first choice.
In the balance hangs life as we know it. Constitutional rights. The right to bear arms (fall is deer hunting season where we live). Freedom of speech. Freedom to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, without fear of “hate speech” editing our Bibles and our pastors.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book; andif anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.” Revelation 22:18-19 NASB
Freedom to worship. Freedom to work hard, prosper without “redistributing the wealth.”
Will we follow the Bible or man? Will we vote for “Change we can believe in?”
Wish you Could DO Something? Not Sure Where to Start?
This is the 6th presidential campaign I have worked on. The best thing about working a campaign is the assurance that YOU did all YOU could do to make a difference! That is truly satisfying! We can all do one of the top 10 – many of us can do all 10!
Top 11 Things You Can Do To Gain Control & Make a Difference in Election 2008
1. Call battleground states from home! Go to www.JohnMcCain.com. Enter the site. On the right hand side you will see buttons that allow you to volunteer from HOME or WHEREVER you are right now! Press on “Make Phone Calls.” You will hear a message from Senator McCain. Follow the directions (I had to register, just adding in my name and email etc). The campaign will then give you an easy telephone script and a cycle of 40 names to call. Each new number has a screen that you quickly fill out. Calls are simple and fast to make. You can do 40 calls, 5 at a time, throughout the day, or all at once. I did laundry, cooked dinner, and taught school while making calls. So far this week, I have been calling Missouri and Michigan – both battleground states and done at least 40 calls a day.
Tips for making phone calls:
Begin with prayer.
Have a drink ready.
Read and stick to the script.
Realize that with some callers, you will kind of stumble through it – that is okay! They don’t know you – go on with grace!
Call with a SMILE on your face.
Be bright, be brief and be gone!
Ask them for their VOTE (that is “closing the sale!”)
Don’t let nasty recipients get you down; you are calling for your children and grandchildren.
Take on 40 a phone calls a day
2. Allow your older teens and children to make 40 phone calls. Larger families can rotate it through family members, so the phone is going non stop. Idea: while we adore our younger children – voters might not. Prayerfully use good judgment here. We love our kids and all of their triumphs – but voters may not find a child as charming as we do.
3. Join the 72 Hour Program. Sign up at http://www.johnmccain.com/72hour/ by clicking on your state. If you live near a battleground state, click on it too, if you would consider crossing the border to help!
4. Find your LOCAL Republican headquarters at www.rnc.org and volunteer in your state. Google it, call around your town or county to find out where your election office is. Go down and volunteer. You can:
Make phone calls
Go door to door (in parties, supervising children!) and get the vote out
Stand with a McCain/Palin sign on busy corners at busy times (supervise kids and use wisdom)
Let the kids make their own signs “Homeschoolers for McCain” “Learning Challenged Kids for Palin” etc.
5. Give grace ~ the last few days of an election are crazy! They want your help, but may not get back to you in a way that makes you feel wanted. Realize that all McCain/Palin staffers, RNC folks are swamped and exhausted at the end of the campaign. They need you and want you – but may not be able to go out of their way to let you know. The competition has a much better ground operation in place along with unlimited funds and people. The RNC is working twice as hard with a fraction of the resources. BE AGGRESSIVE in finding the RNC. Go the extra yard to find them and be gracious when you do!!I cannot underestimate the exhaustion they feel at this point of the game.
6. Make goodies for a campaign office! Campaign offices scrape by hoping to make it to Election Day with enough toilet paper. There is no budget for bottled water, snacks, lunches, dinners, treats. Visit your local campaign office and determine what is needed, than take it. Have the kids make muffins and bring coffee in the morning, bring a crockpot of soup and sandwiches at lunch, make pizzas or finger foods for dinner. Bake brownies, cookies, cupcakes or treats. Take fresh fruit and nuts, or veggies with dip and bring them down. Take iced tea, sodas, or drinks or buy readymade stuff. Pleas remember whatever serving items are needed for your snack – they probably won’t have them on hand! Commit to take a treat per day – or coordinate with your homeschool group to bring snacks in the AM, lunch, PM.
7. Ask your local campaign office WHAT THEY NEED and do it! It might be pencils and paper, food, someone to clean the bathroom, or volunteers! Be a servant this election.
8. Volunteer in a battleground state! We live TN, but live an hour from NC and an hour from VA. TN is solidly in the red (although 30% of the evangelicals voted Democrat in the primaries) We are rotating between these two battleground states and volunteering a day in one, a day in the next. Yes – this costs more gas and time (but hey – gas is $.20 cheaper PER gallon in one state, making my trips “free!”) This election is worth it!
9. Send your testimony out on why you are voting Republican. Write a quick email and press send! What you say may make a difference in an undecided voter. From national security to religious freedom to the right to bear arms – what you say is important!
10. Help this email go VIRAL! Send TheTop 11 Things You Can Do To Gain Control & Make a Difference in Election 2008 to 20 friends, all of your Yahoo Groups, your homeschool groups and post it on your blog. Or send them to my blog www.ThePrudentWife.com/blog where they can read and click live links!
11. Campaigning Counts AS SCHOOL! It is more important than any book you can read or worksheet you can complete – get your kids learning about the election process now!
THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO is Pray! Pray! Pray! The single most important thing you can do this election is to PRAY for our nation. Visit www.Precept.org to view America At the Crossroads.
You can make a TREMENDOUS difference this election if you put wings to these ideas and act. Don’t sit around stressed for another moment! Choose an activity a day – or two or three and go for it!
If you are tempted to do nothing, know that the Obama campaign is paying for a BUS to pick people up in Chattanooga and Knoxville, taking them to North Carolina to WORK, and have arranged for a church for folks to stay at (where is the IRS when WE need it??) If he is busing people to the battleground out of MY state – he is probably doing it out of YOURS.
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Can I just say for a minute – I understand busy and stressed. As I write this, we just downsized into a home 1/3 the size, house not together yet, summer wardrobe not switched for winter and the cold has set in, I was in a car accident and go to the Dr 3x a week in a lot of pain, my husband works for a company that is downsizing and expects to be laid off at any moment, he is applying for jobs everywhere, we homeschool and to top it all of – I will know for sure if I am prego on Election Day. We are the prototypical family this election! So we understand stress, being tight on funds, no time, physical limitations, etc! You can still DO this!!! Your kids can still do this! You can make a tremendous difference – no go email this to your whole list and ACT!
If there are mistakes in grammar – forgive me! Emily and I have to get to liberal Ashville (Obamaland) and work and get back to TN in time to lead Dave Ramsey’s FinancialPeaceUniversity tonight! We have 3 hours round trip, and want to spend our day campaigning NOT writing! There is truly never a dull moment in our family the week before ANY election!
