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Please leave a message after the tone. Mostly, we're out gathering signatures for ourselves as Precinct Committeeentities and for our candidates. If you want to help with the latter, visit our Links Page for a list of candidates, or look here for petitions for candidates whose campaigns have asked us to display them.

In the meantime, here's a couple of things to tide you over. First, a bit of reading from Paul Krugman:

According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, in the current election cycle every one of the top 10 industries making political donations is giving more money to Democrats. Even industries that have in the past been overwhelmingly Republican, like insurance and pharmaceuticals, are now splitting their donations more or less evenly. Oil and gas is the only major industry that the G.O.P. can still call its own. All of this greatly increases the odds that the Republicans, far from establishing a permanent majority, will be out of power for quite a while. But it also raises the question of what Democratic rule will really mean.... Many progressives, myself included, hope that the next president will be another F.D.R. But we worry that he or she will turn out to be another Grover Cleveland instead — better-intentioned and much more competent than the current occupant of the White House, but too dependent on lobbyists' money to seriously confront the excesses of our new Gilded Age.

Second, here's a video from a group calling themselves the 35 Percenters. Even if you're not a Kucinich supporter like I am, you may find this amusing.