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This week we launched our innovative Get Out The Vote campaign which focuses on each of us getting the people we know to vote for Obama by Election Day. Today, we’re making it even easier to reach out to friends using the nation’s most popular social networking site: Facebook.

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We all know peer pressure works. When you ask someone you know to commit to do something for you, they won’t want to let you
down. Now you can leverage that energy to help elect Barack Obama.

That’s why our Get Out The Vote campaign focuses on mobilizing your social network. Pledge to vote right now and commit to getting at least 3 of your friends to the polls by Election Day. Together, we’ll get 3 million votes for Obama in 30 days and everyone who votes will get a free “I voted for Obama” bumper sticker too.

Get started right now!

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No matter what the polls say right now, this election is going to be close. Don’t leave victory up to chance. Take action today and keep it going until every poll is closed.

Thank you for making change happen.

-Charles

Charles Chamberlain, Political Director
Democracy for America

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.