The man of the hour just popped up in my inbox

Dear XXXXX,


Got a phone? Then you have what you need to tip this election over the top.

We're in a dead heat, with more races up for grabs than anyone thought possible. But there are millions of people out there -- people who share our concerns about the war in Iraq and the Republicans' failures here at home -- who aren't yet planning to vote.

Our friends at MoveOn.org Political Action have a plan to make sure that everyone who's hungry for change gets to the polls. They've taken the voter lists from the most important races in the country and found infrequent voters who are likely to vote for Democrats if we can get them to the polls. It's all online with a simple tool that makes it easy to call these key voters. They're aiming to make over a million of these turnout calls in the next 5 days -- and with races being decided by as little as a hundred votes, your participation could make all the difference.

MoveOn has urgently asked the JohnKerry.com community for help reaching these crucial voters in these final days and hours. Can you take some time this weekend and next Tuesday to make some calls to unlikely voters?

Sign up to bring your cell phone and make calls in good company from a "calling party."

Or sign up to make calls from home.

Wondering if these calls are effective? We did too. It turns out that, working with a top Yale researcher, MoveOn actually tested this program in a primary election this spring. These calls had a huge, measurable impact on voter turnout -- hearing from real people like you means a lot more to potential voters than hearing from a paid staff member who speaks in a monotone.

And there's something else important going on here. For decades, politics has been dominated by big money and lots of ads. But thanks to folks like you, all that is changing. And this year, the winning margin could come from real, person-to-person contact -- not some Swift Boat-style smear campaign.

One week from now, we will have a historic opportunity to make change -- to finally hold this administration accountable and turn this country around. But to do it, we'll all need to pitch in. Can you join MoveOn's "Call for Change" effort and help make it happen?

Sign up to bring your cell phone and make calls in good company from a "calling party."

Or sign up to make calls from home.

Two years ago, an unprecedented number of Americans voted for my campaign for change. Next week, if we can help get those folks out to vote again, we'll win. Thank you for joining this important effort.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

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many people from calling the same ones! YEOWWW, that would just piss everybody off!

I was given a list of people to call here in Ga. to support one of our Dem candidates. There were only 30 #'s on the sheet, butI find cold calling like that sooo hard to do! If we all just volunteered to call say 5 people, they could still get millions of calls made and it would be easy on everyone!

the active call list. I called this way for Kerry in '94 and it was lots of fun. You call only registered Democrats and I had some great conversations with progressives all over the country!

So in that repect, these aren't cold calls but Democrat to Democrat calls.

all most those glitches, like repeat call are avoided. They also provide support to help make it a wonderful experience. Looks like they put a lot of time, effort and thought into it to make it work.

http://www.moveon.org/event/faq/index.html?expand_all=1&faq_id=38

Thanks to BrotherBuzz and kilaana for the link.

http://pol.moveon.org/phone/volunteer/fp.html?rc=JK

We should ALL sign up and do this! Everyone on DU!

Go to http://www.callforchange.org and sign up now.

They have a list of numbers to target likely progressive voters, and their system prevents multiple calls being made to the same number.

I started making calls last night. It's no big deal. Yeah, it's a little weird making phone calls to total strangers, and you'll get people that hang up on you, or some who plan to vote Republican. But every extra voter that you can encourage to go to the polls will help make a difference!
If we all do this it can make a BIG difference!

So don't just sit there. Sign up and start making calls today!!