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Submitted August 20, 2008 - 3:47 pm by Russell Glober

Hey All,

I have found a direct inverse correlation between my sense of calm, purpose and excitement and the number of non-"The Field" (or Demconwatch.blog) information sources I read.  When I read LESS of the garbage out there (and that includes the comments section of fivethirtyeight.com which has ceased to be useful), I feel happier and...

...I spend MORE time working on the campaign.

The Los Angeles volunteer group I've been with for 8 months (and which has existed for over a year) just ran a Camp Obama last weekend that trained and fired up 180 new community organizers, specifically tasked with phonebanking and road tripping to NV (and possibly NM).  They'll also be called upon for voter reg but mostly as a source of potential volunteers for phonebanks and road trips. 

Those 180 people have subdivided in Congressional District teams and are all running phonebanks this week (immediately after being trained!).  And out of that group, we got a number to commit to a voter reg trip to Vegas this weekend (in which I'll also be participating) and found interns for the volunteer staff we've already sent from CA to NV.

And we're hoping to run TWO Camp Obamas PER WEEK all over California until the the election.

It's the best pyramid scheme ever, and the currency is HOPE and CHANGE!

I've found peace of mind by recruiting and training volunteers, registering voters (converting them to volunteers), and soliciting donations by setting up my own fundraising page on MyBo (I've raised nearly $8,000 this year for the O-man).

And you can too!

The price of admission is reading less (Halperin can kiss my ass; I've banished his bookmark!) and doing more.

If you haven't participated in a Camp Obama in your state, do it--the lessons are invaluable; the camraderie is amazing; and the results will be stupendous.

If there is no Camp Obama, just create a MyBo profile and look for phonebanking and voter reg events.

Ready, set, go!

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