What can we do to ensure a Kerry win?

[coloradodem2005]

The country is still split between the two. As I am listening to Kerry's ideas, I am really liking most of what he has to say but the race is still a dead heat. He is broadening his scope. Does he need to do that more? What are the stats now?

[NMDemDist2]

1. what can we do? vote and bring 5 new voters with you

if we all did that it's a cakewalk

[wyldwolf]

2. rig the voting machines and keep the supreme court out of it...

..we can also disenfranchise southern and fundamentalist voters who are more likely to vote GOP.

[LibDemAlways]

3. Take a friend who didn't bother to vote in 2000

to see Fahrenheit 911. If anything will get people to the polls, it's the unvarnished truth about the BFEE.

[CalebHayes]

4. http://showgeorgethedoor.org/

http://showgeorgethedoor.org/

The 200-page book explains how to:

Help beat Bush in swing states, even if you don't live in one.
Register people to vote-or update their voter registration information (via the internet and elsewhere).
Take advantage of talk radio, letters-to-the-editor, blogs and other media.
Spread the word in cafes and bars.
Use your house, car, pet, business, and your body.
Maybe you think politics is boring, and you don't want to be bored? Here are some of the book's suggestions that might appeal to you:

Take a night for a "pub crawl" or "bathroom crawl," dropping off anti-Bush napkins, coasters, and "Wipe Bush" toilet paper in your favorite establishments-as well as voter registration forms.
Sing Bush parody songs ("Pants on Fire" sung to the Door's "Light My Fire") on talk radio shows or at Karaoke bars. (This activity is called "guerilla Karaoke;")
Obtain a "Bite Bush" button for your pet (Chapter 3, "Pets for Regime Change"), or recite anti-Bush poetry at poetry slams and coffee houses.
Chalk "VOTE BUSH OUT" on sidewalks with a unique "chalk stamper." (Find instructions on how to build one in Chapter 19, "Chalking Sidewalks for the Good of the Nation.")
Stand on a corner with "BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO? ME NEITHER." on a sandwich board.
Host "Patriots for Regime Change" July 4 house party to raise money and/or register voters. At the party, play Bushocchio, a game like pin the tail on the donkey, but it's pin the Pinnochio-like nose on Bush.

[Hoping4Change]

5. In 1945 businesses taxes made uo 40% of total tax revenue.

Now 7%.

Kerry has to address these corporate tax loopholes and their setting up offshore branches to avoid US taxes!!!!!!!

[Sean From Tampa]

6. Be nicer to Naderites

As someone who voted for Nader in 2000, if there's one thing that annoys the hell out of me is listening to Democrats blame me (rather than Gore's own shortcomings and the Supreme Court's illegal behavior) for Bush's win.

To my fellow Dems - Get a clue! Blaming us for Bush doesn't make us want to vote for Kerry. If any of us vote for Kerry this time around, it will really be a vote against Bush II. If Kerry wants to keep us around in '08, he's going to need to find out what we want and work to get it for us. (Hint: repealing NAFTA, GATT and getting us out of the WTO would be a great start).

We're to the Democrats what the Religious Right is to the Repukes. You can't win without us.

[0rganism]

7. Volunteer for the Kerry campaign, or start your own bushbusting campaign

The Democratic party is always looking for help in organizing events, canvassing, manning the phones, monitoring media coverage, helping however you can. Even if you don't join up, you can still assist from the sidelines. Make a pot of coffee for the campaign workers. Donate unused office supplies. Invite canvassers in for a snack when you get the chance. Wave as you pass by.

Or you can download some of the various bush crime fact sheets that circulate on the internet, dress them up to suit your taste, stop by the copy machines, and start pamphleting. Leave a dozen copies in the laundromat and the bus station, drop off twenty in your favorite watering hole, staple or tape them to lightposts near signal-controlled crosswalks, slip 'em in the wipers of cars sporting "bush/cheney" bumperstickers.

Does your town have a local call-in talk show hosted by a rightwing freak? Of course it does. Make a habit of listening carefully and calling in as often as possible to point out the numerous lies and distortions.

Write a letter to the editor of your local fishwrapper once a week.

Show up to vote in November.

[zeemike]

8. Not to be cynical but…

There is nothing we can do to insure a victory. The race is Kerry’s to louse and if he wants to louse it there is nothing we can do.
So it is now up to Kerry, he must talk about changing the way things are done, and give us something to be inspired about again. He must express to us his clear vision of the future and where we go from what must be the low point of our civilization. on an upward journey into a much better future for the young.
If he did all that and we just felt inspired and there was a surge of people at the poles saying Yes , Yes . Yes we want a change, and then maybe we could feel assured of a victory. It would even be hard to fix the election if there was massive turnout at the polls