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A couple of announcements as we go into the final weekend before E-Day.
First, weekends on this site can be slow. That won't be the case this weekend. I'm not sleeping all that much these days and I imagine that will continue through Tuesday. If you are following a race, especially one I and others haven't paid enough attention to, please post about it here. Take the responsibility to let us know what is happening in the races you care about (or are working on). Robert and I are probably getting 40 press releases a day from campaigns across the state. (Also, I'm getting probably 300 emails a day right now) If there is something going on that the community needs to know about, please let us know on the site. You'll be doing all of us a favor and I'll most likely put it on the front page.
If you've got info on volunteer opportunities, etc, post it. There is more than likely other folks who are looking for something to do, some way to get involved somewhere close to home. I'll do whatever I can to promote it. Seriously. Robert and I and the rest of the front pagers can't do it all. Give us a hand.
I'm also looking to organize some distributed election night coverage. More on that tomorrow. Also, October, 2008 was by far the highest traffic month in this site's history. Last month, our previous best ever, we did just under 95,000 pageviews. This month we did just over 162,000. Wow.
Essentially, I'm saying that this site is now open 24 hours a day between now and early Wednesday morning. Check in often. Contribute. Let's get to work.
Finally, I wanted to mention a couple of birthdays. My mom is actually an avid reader of this site. Her birthday was yesterday. Just wanted to say Happy Birthday, mom! Here's a shot of my mom's front porch in lovely coastal Maine:
As you can tell, my Mom is all about some Barack Obama.
Also, as I posted last year on this very day, today, Halloween, is my shelter sweetheart's birthday. Molly is two years old on this All Hallows Eve and is again howling at the moooooon....
Anyhoo, this site is open all day and all night from here on out. I hope we can use it as a place to organize and share info so as to be as effective as possible in the next few days. Check back often. There's much in the pipeline and even more coming from contributors around the state.
Happy Birthdays and Happy Halloween everybody
Forward.
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