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Call for submissions: What are some of the 57 reasons to vote Obama-Biden?


Readers may recall that in the 2006 election cycle, I wrote the 57 Reasons to Vote No on Issue 3, aka Ohio Learn and Earn* – aka a horrific effort to legalize gambling by leading with an education-funding package. I can’t say whether it was a success as far as an effort by one person to expose why the proposed constitutional amendment sucked, but I do know that a few minds were changed, though not all.

Most importantly, there was excellent debate that rarely if ever devolved into personal attacks.

So let’s have it – what are some of your ideas for a 57 reasons to vote for Obama-Biden? The countdown will start on Tuesday, September 9th. Probably best to e-mail them, for the surprise element, but you can leave ideas in the comments too.  I promise to give attribution.

Also – if anyone is techie enough, maybe we can do a widget for the reasons that would scroll them in a sidebar?

Sigh. I love it when I can really feel support for something. Don’t you?

*That link will take you to an easy to follow list of 48 reasons, but this link will get you to all 57, though it’s not as nice a presentation.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:03 am August 23rd, 2008 in Announcements, Barack Obama, Blogging, Elections, Joe Biden, Obama-Biden57, Politics, Writing 

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3 Responses to “Call for submissions: What are some of the 57 reasons to vote Obama-Biden?”

  1. 1 Carole Cohen on August 23rd, 2008 9:48 am

    I love the widget idea! I’d put it in my sidebar for sure!

    On widgets, you’d think a techie campaign would already have a replacement widget for the official campaign logo….I’ve been clicking there all morning but no luck. Maybe I didn’t get my original widget from there…anyway 57 or bust :-)

  2. 2 Buck Nuts on August 23rd, 2008 3:18 pm

    I liked how “Learn and Earn” morphed into “Lie and Earn” and that anyone associated with promoting Issue 3 ended up looking like a bald faced liar.

    Thanks Jill Learn and Earn was a travesty and the people who worked for them were (and likely still are) the lowest form of scum.

    I’m not sure you can top the interest you had for your original 57 Reasons due to the fact that you’re looking for positive reasons to support Obama/Biden versus all the down and dirty negative people and reasons to poo poo Learn and Earn Issue 3.

    Good luck

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    [...] I’m starting to get more excited about the 57 reasons. [...]

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