I just donated $19 to the Obama Biden campaign.  I want to tell you why.  As a matter of fact, I've already told everyone on Facebook why I am parting with $19 to put Obama back into the White House for four more years.  Contrary opinions will be graciously tolerated.

 Put your money where your mouth is.

 If you don't want to see the 2012 election bought cheap by the Radical Right, then, please, skip a couple of trips to Starbucks and contribute to the Obama Biden campaign.

Sure, there are Bill Mahers out there who can pony up million dollar gifts, but liberals don't contribute as much as conservatives do.  That's because conservatives are trying to buy something, while liberals are trying to prevent something from being bought.  They just aren't as motivated....but here's the really important thing:  everyone in the media is looking very closely as the fundraising totals that Romney and Obama are racking up because they believe that reflects the relative degrees of support among people who are actually likely to vote.  

The more we contribute, the more the polls will reflect that strength because, once you contribute to a candidate, you become more committed to that candidate's success.  It's rather like betting on the home team....you pay more attention to the game when you have a bet riding on the outcome. 

The degree to which your vote counts on election day has a great deal to do with where you live.  In Florida, folks, my vote is much more important than it would be if I lived in New York. Living in Palm Beach County, my vote probably has even greater impact than it would anywhere else in the state, because Palm Beach County is where Gore lost the 2000 campaign.

Right now, Governor Rick Scott is trying to throw people off the voter rolls for real or imagined defects in their qualifications.  180,000 are on the list in Miami-Dade.  Around the country, other Republican governors are doing similar things.

Here's the rub:  Today, your contribution may count MORE than your vote will in November, especially if you live in a state that has already been conceded to the Republican Party.  (Consider moving to a swing state until after the election.  I would, if I weren't already right in the middle of the main battleground.)

You know that I've put my money where my mouth is....because that's the only way I could post this comment on behalf of the Obama-Biden campaign....but let me give you a tip that the OB campaign won't like:

Give early and often....but give the smallest possible amount so you can afford to give again.  The media see the number of contributions and the amounts, so giving $20 five times is a more potent statement than giving $100 once.

It's called momentum, and momentum is what's going to decide this election.

Sure, you can carp against Obama for the mistakes he's made....and I have deep reservations about many of his decisions....but I also know that we would be much worse off if the Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House because there would be no checks or balances on their rapacious intentions.  

It has become abundantly clear that the Republican Party is being controlled by people who don't understand economics because they are ABOVE economics.  They are too rich to ever suffer the consequences of the punitive measures the Republicans will enact against the economic, social and medical safety nets we have now.  Weak as they are, they are better than nothing.  (I live on one of them and another will soon start picking up my absurd medical costs.) 

In the final analysis, this election comes down to one question:  Two of the next three Supreme Court justices who are most likely to retire are liberals.  If either of them is replaced by a Republican President, the Republicans will have a solid majority on the Court for the next 10 to 20 years.

Isnt' it worth a couple of cups of overpriced coffee to help make sure that won't happen?

 (Excuse me for preaching, but you know what happens when men of good fwill do nothing.....)