GOTV: Leave it all on the road, and make sure the road behind you is clear

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

The polls look great for President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and there was much rejoicing. However, as anyone reflective must acknowledge, there has never been a single President of the United States elected by a poll, or a pollster all by his lonesome. Such a herculean undertaking requires millions of Americans to come together, as is required constitutionally, on the first Tuesday of every fourth November.

This year, that day'Election Day'is now again upon us.

So, it is time for us to vote.

This year, however, much as the polls showing that our favored candidate, our beloved-even-when-he-pisses-us-off President, is in the lead uplift us and inspire us to vote ourselves, more is required than the minimum of simply casting our own ballots. We must do what we can to make sure that the inspiration felt by others is just as effectuated as our own, at the ballot box.

That means that we must take steps, as citizens, to ensure that none of our neighbors are disenfranchised, by circumstance or design.

By any means necessary, if we do not wish to confront one day the choice between the ballot, or the bullet.