GO GET OUT THE VOTE!!!

Daily Kos and Josh Marshall are all over the poll numbers, the voter intimidation and the whole GOTV thing.

So what are you doing reading this? Go get out the vote! The only way Kerry is going to win is if the Democrats can convince big numbers of voters to get out on the streets and vote. As Ben Stiller would say: DO IT!

Call your friends, email everyone you know, talk to the people at work, in the shops, on the streets. Get them thinking about just what exactly four more years of Bush/Cheney would mean, not just to them but to the world. Do it!

If you need it, here's some timely assistance from Juan Cole on that latter point (Cole also reminds voters that the rest of the world actually exists, it's not just something you see on television):

I would put the odds of an anti-American mass revolution in Iraq during a second Bush term at 50/50... If Bush is reelected, it is clear that he will continue to attack his hit list, which is pre-announced. He will strike at Iran. His infantry and armor are tied down in Iraq. But he could mount a naval blockade of Iran, and he could strike it from the air. He could also intrigue with impatient junior officers in Tehran in hopes of making a coup. It would probably fail. But Bush will be tempted to try... his real motivation is to unlock Iran's economy for US investment and to remove a foreign policy thorn from the US side.

... Were both Iraq and Iran to end up destabilized, petroleum prices would go sky high.

Powerful figures in the Bush administration also very much want to overthrow the other Baath regime, in Syria... If Bush artificially causes the Baath to collapse in Damascus, he could create a Muslim fundamentalist axis stretching from Lebanon through Syria to Sunni Iraq...

The most frightening thing of all is that the Project for a New American Century group, which has made an internal coup in the Bush administration, ultimately has its sights on China... Picking a fight with Beijing, which is a very attractive option for the American Right, would be disastrous.