Driving Votes: Alice's Blog - Archived Entry

Everyone, please read Slate today at http://www.slate.com/id/2104745/
This article, by William Saletan, is called "The Polls are Good for Kerry (really!)". The article is keeping me going after the abysmal primary elections in Missouri, where the homophobes prevailed by a wide margin on the referendum on a constitutional amendment enshrining marriage as between a man and woman only.

The Democratic primary in Missouri, where the state auditor beat an incumbent governor could actually be good news. She was widely considered the one most likely to beat the Republican in the general election. It just means that we have to continue working hard to register as many Dems as we can.

Last week, we had our meeting. Our fearless leader, Steve, has done some amazing work, and I'm confident that we'll be signing up a lot more people before the deadline. We'll keep you posted!