Do you live in a deep-Red county with no hope of change?  Is your county going Blue with or without you?   Don't feel left out.  We need your help in three of the hottest counties in nation.  From the comfort of your home, you can pick up the phone and make two hours of calls using a web-based dialer program.  On November 8, you'll be able to say that you helped bring change to Bucks, Chester and Delaware Counties in suburban PA.  

PA Action is working with US Action and Women's Votes to get likely progressive female voters to the polls on November 7th.

The field plan involves direct mail and an intense canvassing plan as well as at least one contact by phone.  If we can get 375 people around the country to make two hours of calls (about 150 calls), that will free up 750 volunteer hours for us and we can focus on the face-to-face contacts and the last three days of dragging people out.

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PA Action, working with Women's Voices Women's Votes and US Action, is working a non-partisan campaign on the phones and on the ground to turnout likely progressive female voters this election.   You've probably read about WVWV here at MyDD. As Matt said in that post:

Right-wingers have two giant fears.  The first is if evangelicals stop voting, as they did from the 1920s until the late 1970s.  The second is if single women start voting.

That second part is our plan and you can help from the comfort and convenience of your home.  We need four hundred people to each call one hundred names on our list.  That's about two hours of work per person.  Trust me, it goes by more quickly than you may imagine.  The script is short and direct.  The focus voters are people we need to get to the polls if we want to see some change in the direction this country.

Please make the jump and find out how you can spend a couple of hours helping to get this country back on track.

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(cross-posted at Deny My Freedom and Daily Kos)

A lot is said about 'rock stars' within the Democratic Party. Ever since Bill Clinton became president in 1993, there's been an aura of him being one of those rock stars in our party. The same goes for his wife, Hillary, even though she has many detractors within the party itself - after all, she has raised $33 million for a re-election campaign that will be a cakewalk. After his rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has become another one of those charismatic personalities within our party. Heck, even Connecticut Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont, a political unknown 6 months ago, may have attained rock star status.

On the eve of the netroots fundraising push, though, I thought it'd be a good time to talk about a congressional candidate in the Philadelphia suburbs who has a very bright future ahead of him. His name is Patrick Murphy, and below the fold, I'll tell you more about him - and why we should be donating our time and money to his campaign.

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I don't know what happened in the Fitzpatrick (PA-08) campaign this morning allowing a decision to be made that sent the congressman's chief of staff, Mike Conallen, dialing into a press conference call featuring Patrick Murphy and Senator John Kerry with the apparent intention of derailing it.     You may have read the story already.  I've got the partial transcript of the call.

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What we know:

Medicare Part D does not allow the government (American taxpayers) to have a negotiating role when it comes to dealing with the pharmaceutical industry.  

Since 1991 state Medicaid programs have benefited from "best price" rebates from pharmaceutical companies to be sure that Medicaid doesn't pay more for drugs than what commercial insurers are able to negotiate.

To find out what we won't know, let's turn to the NYT story, A Windfall from Shifts to Medicare, from Tuesday:

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