Campaign invasion

This weekend, ten Vassar Democrats ventured over to New Jersey to knock on doors, make calls, and get the word out for the Victory 2009 campaign, Corzine for Governor. We dispersed into the neighborhoods to make it known why we support the Governor, then joined the Governor at the NJ Italian-American Festival, where we strove to see that every person there wore a Corzine sticker before the day's end. The most frequently asked question we were asked was: Why should you care when you're not even from New Jersey?

In the last state senate race to be decided, incumbent State Senator, Frank Padavan has won.  With 265 ballots being fought over, Padavan holds a 578 vote lead.  Challenger Jim Genarro put up a great fight and almost took out a long time incumbent. Padavan drew much criticism during the campaign for attacking St.

[gallery] These are from across the state in our GOTV efforts.

Just recieved an email from the Obama campaign about the number of calls that where made in NY and it is amazing just how well we did. Here are the numbers. On Election day, NY made 1,053,791 to swing states to get out the vote. If you add this to the College Democrats numbers it looks even better for NY. Here are the numbers again:

-registered 11,000 college students to vote in NY -knocked on 126,750 doors for Obama in battlground states -Organized 572 students to go from NY to the battleground states PA, NH, VA -Organized 120 students to work on NYS Senate races and U.S.

With the great GOTV efforts of the College Democrats of NY in Scranton PA, Congressman Kanjorski has held onto his seat. He was running against the Mayor of Hazelton PA, Lou Barletta. Lou as his signs refer to him as, is a raging racist who is famous for his defense of a group of high schoolers who murdered a Latino. With this win we where able to prevent another bad Republican from having his voice heard on the national scene.

Tomorrow, students will be proudly showing up to vote on Election Day in the largest numbers this country has seen in decades. College Students want leadership and change and Congressman Randy Kuhl from the NY-29 has not represented our nation's youth during his time in office. Congressman Kuhl has repeatedly voted against increases to student aid that would make the cost of college tuition more affordable and less of a burden on families.

In less then 24 hours the polls will be open and voting will begin to decide the next president of the United States.  Across the state students will be voting and working on campaigns that will change the fundamental course of our country. Please do not forget to vote. In addittion please work on a campaign to get out the vote. Great candidates such as Brian Foley, Joe Addabbo, Joe Mesi, Eric Massa, Alice Kryzan and Barack Obama, need your help to make sure that they win. Without our support, there is no guarantee that we will change the future of the country.