I'll vote for hope, but I wish there was more I could do to save America

I am trying desperately to scrape up some optimism about America, but I see trouble down the road coming from all sides. I'm afraid my vote won't even be counted, but I WILL vote, straight Democratic down the line, like always, like my mom and dad have always voted, but I really wish there was something more concrete I could do besides vote.

One person doesn't have much power, power only comes to people when they act together, by the millions, and right now, the rotten people have the power. We've got to exercise OUR power, and it has to go beyond pulling the lever at the voting booth.

I've seen a lot of people say that if mccain steals it, they'll consider physically leaving America. Sometimes I wish I could, but I can't, I can only hang around here and live through whatever the assholes have planned for us.

My wish is that things get so bad that BOTH sides of the political spectrum will get together and manifest their true power to rid our government of the maniacs who are taking us all down the road to hell.

But that too is a pollyanna optimist's dream. I will vote, but the last two elections left me with a hollow feeling of hopelessness. I wish there were something more that I could do besides just voting.

play on a continual loop throughout the day, makes me realize it's happening all over again. Damn! Democrats have got to STOP making nice. Nice is not going to win the race. I'm beside myself. Every Democrat who can get in front of a camera today should cry "BULLSHIT" loud and long. This is Rovian bullshit.

http://electiondefensealliance.org/what_you_can_do_defend_election_08
Some of what is on their list:

Sign up for Election Verification Polling (Citizen Exit Polls) in November
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/evp

Sign up with the I-Count Corps to handcount ballots
http://electiondefensealliance.org/count/signup.php

Download, read, and share the Blackboxvoting 2008 Citizens' Toolkit
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.html

Explore the links at the EDA Take Action page
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/takeaction

Write a Letter to the Editor (or your Representative)
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/let_people_count

Find and join a local election integrity group near you
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/Regional_EI_Directory

Join an EDA Working Group on a subject of your interest
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/workinggroups

Subscribe for E-mailed EDA Alerts and Announcements

Donate Financial Support
http://electiondefensealliance.org/Donate

Get involved in any of these EDA projects:

Investigating Election Fraud
The Arizona Transparency Project
Election Integrity Monitoring
Election Forensic Analysis
Universal Ballot Sampling Protocol for Election Verification
Commissioning Polls and Voter Surveys as Checks on Reported Election Results
Conducting Citizens' Election Verification Polls
Training Citizens in Hand-Counted Paper Ballot Elections (HCPB) via The I-Count Corps
Legal Initiatives such as the Save New York Levers Project
Legislative Analysis
Multipartisan Election Reform Advocacy
Election Integrity Broadcasts via California Public News Service
Education and Organizing at Saving America Vote by Vote Screenings
Podcasting on Election Defense Radio
Videocasting on EDA TV
Citizen Act

There is a LOT each and everyone of us can do

Volunteer at your local Democratic party headquarters.
They need all kinds of volunteers - phonebanking, doorknocking, manning info booths....so much more. Even bring cookies to keep up volunteer energy! (please, please bring me cookies)

What are each and everyone of you doing? Is there anything more important in the next 8 weeks?