Robi Ganguly’s Big Ideas

Dear friends and readers of this blog:

If you think to yourself, "I don’t understand why people vote the way they do. I feel like so much of the country is crazy."

Or you think, "Why is everyone up in arms about politics, it’s not like it matters who’s President anyway."

Or maybe you’re just tired of people making snap decisions about candidates based upon the things they hear in the news, through ads and from headlines and feeling a bit hopeless about the state of affairs.

You’re NOT alone.

But you are lying to yourself if you’ve gotten to a point where you think your actions don’t matter. Consider these few things:

• Your vote does get counted in this country (many countries can’t say that).
• Your $$ matter. Give to the candidate or the issue that you care about. It doesn’t matter if it’s $5, $25 or $2,000. Your money DOES help. Look at the Obama campaign, which has stunned EVERYONE in its ability to raise money through the donations of "ordinary" citizens (more than 2 million people have given, do you want to join them?). You’re not ordinary – you live in the U.S.A. and probably have disposable income. You are in a position of global wealthiness.
• You have FRIENDS WHO LISTEN TO YOU.

If you’re out there, talking with people about this election, making sure that your voice is heard; through your vote and your wallet, you are doing something.

MAKE YOUR VOICE MATTER.

Register, today, if you’re not. Put your address in here, right now, to check your local info and make sure you’re registered.

Then, go call/email/text/IM/Facebook/MySpace, whatever, 5 or more of your friends this same thought.

You can do it.

(Or listen to these celebrities tell you the same thing..)

PS. If you happen to live in a "swing state" or have friends in "swing states", your voice matters even more. Think about utilizing that understanding in the coming 30 days.

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