what's behind us and what's to come

I'll send a more substantial update soon, but wanted to get a couple of items out today.

We've just had the first of the presidential debates, which poll after polll showed that viewers' estimation of Obama grew. It was, for many people, their first time really listening to and watching Obama, and he managed to move many undecideds and independents in a positive direction.

We've also had the media--both news and entertainment--start to really go after the McCain/Palin campaign, with conservatives and mainstream journalists calling on Palin to drop out, and with comedians hitting hard against Palin by basically repeating her gibberish verbatim (Tina Fey), and going to town on McCain's fake-suspension of his campaign (Letterman). The SNL skit truly is must-see TV.

With the national polls going Obama's way (with 5-9 point leads in the 4 national tracking polls, and expected to go higher today), we can expect the McCain campaign to go into full bizarro creepy nasty mode. They've said that now they're going to start attacking.

And today is the last day of September, and the last week of voter registration.
Please give another donation to the campaign--it's important that we keep gaining the resources needed to win in places like Indiana--where we have 14 campaign offices and McCain has had none, and where's McCain's starting to have to defend this age-old red state--and in North Carolina, where two recent polls give the advantage to Obama by a couple of points.

We really can do this thing, and I'm asking you to help out by making another contribution before midnight tonight, to make our September fundraising as strong as possible.

And if you're interested in volunteering, please let me know and I'll get you hooked up with the right people!