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Here are just a few things you can do to make a difference, the site lists a lot more:

Yard signs for candidates
Walking door-to-door with candidates
Hosting coffees and neighborhood meetings for candidates
Preparing mailings
Walking in parades with candidates
Phoning people to remind them to vote for candidates
Working as an election board member - and you get paid for this one!
Making a financial contribution to your party
All of those are excellent suggestions.

My frustration is that a LOT of people did all that and much more -- Michael Moore released Fahrenheit 9-11, and was set to have it air 2 days before the election on a large syndicated network... but the Republicans made some under-the-counter threats, and the airing was pulled. Likewise, there was an incredible get-out-the-vote drive like has never happened before... and the republicans corrupted the process so badly in Ohio that the polling organizations said it was as worse a case of it as they had ever seen.

Somehow -- and I do not know how -- Americans have to take back the system from the corrupt power brokers that are able to get away with the crap like the attorneys general in Ohio and Florida got away with.

Not only should those sleazebags go to jail for about 50 years, there should be incredible reparations. I mean, how do you compensate the people of the US for fraudulently putting somebody in office that was not elected by the vote of the people, and doing that in two consecutive elections?