Millennial Generation Dean Workers Flood IA! WE TAKE MIDDLE EARTH BACK!!!

[Dems Will Win]

This is the beginning, my friends, the Millennial Generation Revolution has just begun in the state of Iowa, where 5,000 dean volunteers, most of them under the age of 22 (The Heroic Millennial Generation) are now flooding the state. The Newspaper called it The Perfect Storm, I call it the Millennial Revolution, the greatest sea change in American politics since Generation X's apathy and right-wing acquiesence brought us Reagan and this plague of Bushes. The pendulum is now swinging the other way!

15 million Millennials come of voting age in 2004 and there are millions more high schoolers, many who will work for Dean. This unbelievable number of volunteers for the caucus, 5,000!, is by far the largest number ever, with 1 worker for every 20 caucus goer. The incredible goal of Dean for the General Election will also be met: 3 million workers all across the U.S. and especially bussed into the Swing States. The highest number for a Presidential previously? 175,000! Once he meets that goal for the GE, it will be 1 Dean worker for every 35 voters across the whole U.S. Nothing less than the greatest grassroots campaign of all time, of all politics!

And most of them will be Millennials.

I can hear the horns of Gondor coming over the Hill, and with them PunksforDean, 1 million led by brave Aragon, I can see the shocked look on the Republican Orcs, the horror of knowing that an empowered Good, THAT THE HEROIC MILLENNIAL GENERATION has them suddenly outnumbered!

(Sorry, I just got back from the Return of the King)

Let the Battle for Middle Earth begin!
Long live Gandalf the Trippi, the White Wizard!
Long Live Howard Frodo, bearing the burden of the Ring of Power, which he will destroy on Nov. 2!
Long live the Heroic Millennials SamWise, young King Aragon and Liv Tyler!

5,000 STRONG IS THE ARMY OF IOWA! BIGGER THAN ANY OTHER IN ALL OF THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE EARTH!!

Long Live DR. FRODO!

WE WILL TAKE OUR MIDDLE EARTH BACK!!!!!!

IT'S ONE-ON-ONE POLITICS THAT ALWAYS WORKS BEST AND HERE IT COMES FOLKS!

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=1579391

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DAVENPORT - Howard Dean calls it his Brewing Storm. Volunteers for Dean's campaign flood Iowa until December 31st trying to get your vote. It all leads up to the January Caucus and what Dean calls his self-proclaimed Perfect Storm --a Caucus victory.

At Dean's Davenport headquarters volunteers from all over the country work long hours trying to get you and your neighbors behind thier candidate. "One of the things that surprised me coming out here is how young a lot of the volunteers are. And how it seems a lot of people my age, whether in college or not, or even high school kids have come out and tried to work for this," says Jeremy Bietler, a college student from Philadelphia who is spending his semester break in Davenport trying to shore up support for Dean.

"I've always voted, but never done anything like this before. I heard give a great speech for 40 minutes. He spoke to every issue I cared about. He didn't mince words. He just came out and spoke his mind. I agree totally with him," explains Bill Everham of Chicago. He and Maggie Feeney, who lives in Boston, are also part of Dean's push to get your vote on January 19th. Bill and Maggie both spent the day in Davenport passing out literature and talking to folks about why Howard Dean should be our next president.

Volunteers are going door-to-door, calling folks on the telephone, emailing and even writing personal letters. So if you're a registered Democrat, chances are you'll be contacted by a Dean volunteer at some point this month.

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[SahaleArm]

1. In college everyone's a socialist - then you have to get a job.

I still doubt the country will swing far to the left. A lot of folks who protested Vietnam are now running Wall Street.

[Hep]

3. Just say it like my father does

When you grow older you become republican.

It's silly the way my father says it, too.

[SahaleArm]

10. Except you become a Democrat...

Just a little more centered;)

[DieboldMustDie]

9. Where are you going to get a job...

when all the jobs are being sent overseas?

[eyesroll]

2. I've done a little generational research myself, and I've read

that while Millennials tend to be more politically active than Gen Xers, they also tend to be more conservative. You seem to be saying the opposite -- is your information anecdotal, or documented?

Just wondering, really. This fascinates me. I'm on the young end of Gen X (1975), and I identify much more with people born in 1965 than I do with people born in 1980. In other words, with people of my generation rather than people closer in age but in a different cohort.

[Dems Will Win]

4. Get this book: generations by Strauss and Howe

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688119123/qid=1072678905//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-0321525-5012815?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

They coined the term and explain that the Millennials, once activated by events like the reinstatement of the draft and the eventual train wreck of the economy, become a highly activist and radically progressive dominating force, 77 million strong. How and Strauss predict in 1992, they will fight the corporate globalization and militarism and then you have the Battle of Seattle in '99 and the G-8 Battle in Genoa in 2001 and the anti-WTO and anti-Iraq War huge demonstrations, populated mostly by the activist Millennials.

When these young people realize Bush is already moving to reinstate the DRAFT in 2005 they will ignite and work even harder for Dean.

By Nov. 2, 6 to 8 million will vote for Dean and only 1.5 to 2 million for Bush. Nationwide Pew poll of all young people under 22 in 2002 showed 51% Democrat. USC Demo Club members: 385, Repuke Club: 224. Princeton Student Poll: 58% disapprove of Bush, less than 30% approve.

Millennials are the opposite of most Gen Xers, although any Xers here on DU are clearly the progressive type!

[shivaji]

5. I am a conservative independent voter and I am voting Dean

because the media propaganda about Dean being far-left is a red herring. Dean is for balanced budgets & pro-2nd amendment. That is no left wing. Kerry, Clark & Gephardt are left of Dean. Lieberman is the only one to the right of Dean, but he is for gun control and meddling in the middle east affairs.

Ofcourse I am also for pro-choice, strict environment protection laws, and tax justice, and health system reform, all Dean themes.

[Dems Will Win]

6. I agree Shivaji!

Dean is as close to perfect as a Dem for 2004 could get. The new progressive young people are his secret weapon, as they appreciate his straight talk style.

Did you hear his wife tell how she woke up one morning and knowing Howard had to leave for a week in Iowa, was suprised to find him mowing the lawn in his business suit for 10 minutes because he knew the lawn would grow too long while he was gone! He's just a plain old caring person that story shows it.

[sandnsea]

11. Yep, you just described a Republican

Many republicans are pro-choice, believe in equal rights for gays and care about the environment. Sounds like Arnold, if you must know.

What some of us old-timers know, is that the devil is in the details. It's how the details are implemented that make the difference. I've seen how the details were implemented in Vermont and I am not impressed.

When I see a state that legalized medicinal marijuana 20 years ago, but hasn't had a governor with enough balls to write the policy so people could actually use marijuana because they're afraid of the electorate, I know right away those are no kind of liberals I'm used to.

Lots of young people may like Dean, but it's not because we're swinging left again, that's for sure.

[exclark4dean]

7. I am 20 and will vote for Dean

so are all my friends.

[drfemoe]

8. Thanks for bringing

the light.

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