Birch Bayh, father of Evan Bayh, leads Obama supporters to early voting

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from the Indiana Statesman: http://www.indianastatesman.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=f6235b73-8c9d-4d6f-94fc-7a093d8322f6


10/8/08 -- Early voting in Indiana began Monday, and to kick off the event approximately 75 people gathered together at the Obama headquarters on Wabash Avenue to hear former senator Birch Bayh give a speech on the importance of early voting. Together all marched to the Cunningham Memorial Library at ISU to become the first voters of this historical presidential election.

"We're here for one reason. That reason isn't to hear Birch Bayh, it is to vote. This election is the most important election in my lifetime," Bayh said. "Some of you remember my 1962 campaign and participated in it. The margin of victory that elected Birch Bayh as your senator was two votes per precinct. If one person had voted for someone else we would have lost. So I would like to ask all of you after you have voted here, to take the responsibility when you're tired and think you have run out of gas to do me a favor: Get two more votes for Birch."

Bayh ended his speech by quoting former President John F. Kennedy, "'Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country… With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his help and his blessing, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own,' so let's go get a ballot."

After leading the march to the library, Bayh said, "I look at what is happening in the world and our country. Students and young people have more to gain by the right decision being made in this election than some of us who are older because they have a whole lifetime ahead of them. I think most of them want hope in our country restored. It is a great place to live, we can make it better."


watch and read: http://www.indianastatesman.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=f6235b73-8c9d-4d6f-94fc-7a093d8322f6

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1. This is stirring and very promising

Bayh is so respected in Indiana.

I wonder if he gave the same kind of speech for Clinton, Gore, etc.?

I'm sure this was also carried on the local TV which could help influence some voters.