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...starred in. It earned an astounding $119 million at the North American box office, nearly five times as much as the previous top-grossing nonfiction film - his own Bowling for Columbine. That fall Moore, never a shy guy, used his newfound political bulk to get out the youth vote for the Democratic presidential ticket, touring 62 venues, most of them college campuses, in the 45 days before the election. He was such a big target that his enemies and enviers made feature-length documentaries against him, like Michael Moore Hates America...
...Personally, the opportunity to vote for someone like Barack Obama will be one of the greatest things I will have done in my life. The Republicans aren't kidding when they say he's the "most liberal" Senator in the Senate. When have we ever had the chance to vote for the "most liberal" of anything...
...member of a group that's been in the headlines lately, would you care to speak up for vote-fraud perpetrators - sorry, I meant community organizers...
...record turnout in Democratic-heavy areas. "Like in Jacksonville [Florida, where Obama heads on Monday], there's a big chunk of folks that just don't participate for some reason in Democratic elections. A stop there, and a visit by us coordinated with trying to get folks out to vote early, has a way of not just changing the percentage within an area but changing the importance of that area as it relates to Democratic voters," says Robert Gibbs, Obama's communications director. "In other words, if you've got an area where Democrats normally comprise 20% of the vote...
...Afraid of a repeat of his surprise loss in the New Hampshire primary, one of the first things Obama does is to ask for a show of hands of people who have already voted. He then asks these supporters to take note of those in the crowd who still need to vote and to get them to the polls. "We can't afford to slow down, sit back or let up for one day, one minute, or one second in these last few days," Obama says, as he did to a crowd of 25,000 in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday...