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01/18/10 05:56 PM ET
Today, Massachusetts voters will either keep hope alive or deal a powerful and devastating blow against change.
To those who live in Massachusetts, especially those disappointed by Democrats, my message is this:
Vote. Vote as though your vote could make the difference, as we learned after the Bush-Gore recount. Vote as though your vote could decide the outcome, which it could. Vote as though your future depends on it, which it does.
If you don’t live in Massachusetts, find folks who do. Urge them to vote.
I have warned Democrats for months that their failure to fight on major issues that have majority support is creating a depression among our voters. The repeated surrender of Democrats, even on issues with 70 percent support from independents, now leads to the surrender of a senator who refuses to run again, Byron Dorgan (D-N.D), at what should be the apex of a brilliant career.
I stand with Springsteen: no surrender.
To Massachusetts: Do not surrender.
Do not surrender your vote or your aspirations. Do not elect an impostor who dares to invoke JFK on behalf of himself, but is another right-wing Republican who would cement the dictatorship of filibuster and obstruction, on behalf of selfishness and greed. And here is the rest of it.
When I write Democrats should “win one for the Ted,” I mean more than winning one election as Notre Dame fought to win its game for the Gipper. This is about what a great party stands for. What it fights for.
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