President takes health-care battle to battleground states

Sorry for the slow posting today, my computer is acting up and I'm in a real funk over all the stupid crap I'm hearing about health care reform.

(CNN) — President Barack Obama takes his battle for health-care reform to two battleground states Wednesday.

The president will hold a town hall at Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina and another later at a Kroger supermarket in Bristol, Virginia, along the Tennessee border.

When the president leaves the nation's capital for events across the country, the location matters. And North Carolina and Virginia matter.

Both states hold important elections over the next year and a half. A Senate seat held by Republican Richard Burr and the state's governorship are up for grabs next year in North Carolina. In Virginia, Democrats are trying to hold on to the governor's office in this November's election.

Next week, Obama campaigns in Virginia with the Democrats' gubernatorial candidate, Creigh Deeds.

BFCE: "He has placed this election in our hands ...It's up to us now."

By GottaLaff

Via FiveThirtyEight, this made me tear up (in a good way). BFCE. E. E. E. How can you be in love with... a campaign? This is how:

By our observation, the Falls Church, Virginia Obama office is as impressive an operation as we have seen in the dozens and dozens of offices we've seen across the nation. In one of Al Giordano's reports from the field in North Carolina, he included a note that one of that state's RFDs (regional field directors) had sent her organizers:

Stay calm - and BE RELENTLESS today. Get everyone motivated, educated, and into the field as quickly and as often as possible...

GET THEM COMFORTABLE WITH A BREAK-NECK PACE. They need to be the cool heads by the time GOTV rolls around...

Report your numbers like clock-work. Call me if you need me. Don't stop until your last shift is confirmed for Sunday...

Barack really is expecting a lot out us - and there isn't much else for him to do. He has placed this election in our hands at this point. It's up to us now. We may never again have our hands on history quite like this again for as long as we live. That makes each hour so so precious. We can slack off, sleep in, and make excuses for the rest of our lives. But today - and for the next 3 weeks... whether we knew what we were getting into or not... we have ended up with people's lives, livelihoods, and dreams for their children - all dependent on our performance day in and day out. This is our one chance at history... our one chance at perfection. Our one chance to live forever. So today - breathe this in... realize that your grandkids will be reading about you... realize that you will miss this feeling very very soon... and win every single hour.

Proud of you in advance for a big day...

"Win every single hour."

Nothing better summarizes the feeling we got in the Falls Church, Virginia office of Senator Barack Obama's Campaign for Change.

If this is what Northern Virginia communism looks like, then count me in.