Volunteers Needed to Help Turn Out the Vote

There is just a little over two weeks left before election day and we need volunteers that are willing to make phone calls to fellow NRA members to turn out the vote for November 6th.  NRA has just revised and simplified a script that you can follow when calling NRA members.  You can do it from your home using a toll free number to dial in.  If you can help with this effort and live in Virginia, contact Luke Cebula or Robert Melvin.  Both Robert and Luke can tell you how to access the phone bank.  Their Contact information is below:

Luke Cebula: Luke.NRA@gmail.com
Robert Melvin: rbmelvin.nra@gmail.com

If you don't live in Virginia you can find you Campaign Field Representative's contact information here.

This Should Be All The Proof You Need That This Election Is Important to Gun Owners

If gun owners needed proof that who wins the race for the White House is critical to our rights, the fact that yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could overturn an opinion rendered less than 10 years ago, should be all you need to convince you of what is at stake this year. Yesterday, the Court heard a challenge to its 2003 ruling that race may be considered as a factor when considering a candidate for admission to colleges and universities.  Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the majority opinion in 2003 which allowed universities to use race as a factor only to find a "critical mass of underrepresented minority students." What is different this time?  There is no Sandra Day O'Conner on the Court.  She was replaced by a more conservative justice who could well rule to overturn that opinion.

Think what could happen if President Obama is re-elected and in the next four years, one of the five justices that sided with the majority in Heller and McDonald is replaced by a more liberal justice who does not interpret the Second Amendment as an individual right.  There are a number of cases winding their way through the courts.  It is possible that one or more of these cases will reach the court in the next four years.

Absentee Voting Underway in Virginia

In-person absentee voting began last Friday (Sept. 21), and ends on Nov. 3. Applications for mail-in absentee voting are available through the State Board of Elections and local voter registration offices. The Richmond Times Dispatch noted that both Chesterfield and Henrico Counties have seen higher rates of in-person absentee voting in the first week that they did in 2008:

Chesterfield County General Registrar Larry Haake said requests for ballots by mail appear to be the same as in 2008 but that in-person voting is up.

Fewer than 100 people had voted in the first three days of absentee voting in 2008 while this year, as of Tuesday, 185 people had voted absentee in person, he said.

Henrico County's western voter registration location saw 69 voters on the first day of in-person absentee voting and so far has seen close to 300 voters, according to Mark J. Coakley, the county's general registrar. The numbers may be higher whenthe county's eastern location is included.

In 2008, 300 people voted in-person absentee in Henrico through the first week of voting, Coakley said.

There is no way to know if the increased interest in absentee voting in these two areas are a better sign for Romney or Obama but it is clear we need to be All In this year to defeat Barack Obama.  The stakes could not be higher in this election, not only for our rights, but also for the economic health of our nation.  If you are not registered to vote, or if you have moved since the last election and need to re-register, you have until October 15th.  Please take the time to register, you can do it here, and here.

Don't Be Distracted - Virgil Goode Will Not Be Elected President

The number one goal of every gun owner should be making sure that Barack Obama is not reelected.  There is only one way to do that, to rally around the only other candidate that has the chance of being elected, even if that candidate is not the "perfect" candidate.

Yesterday, the State Board of Elections certified former congressman Virgil Goode to appear on the ballot in Virginia as the Constitution Party Candidate.  There is no question that former Representative Goode has a spotless voting record on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.  But folks,  Goode is not going to be elected President.  By his own admission to the Roanoke Times, he has only qualified to be on the ballot in 12 states.  Twelve states will not get a candidate elected.

As stated in an earlier post, the stakes are too high in this election to cast a vote that will serve to do nothing more than help reelect Barack Obama.  And make no mistake, a vote for a third party candidate this year is a vote for Barack Obama.

Presidential Race Dead Heat in Virginia

The Richmond Times Dispatch reported the results of a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning that shows the Presidential race has pulled to a dead heat in Virginia.  While national polls show the race is tight, the election is going to be decided in a handful of states, including Virginia, which makes these individual races so important.

Romney has erased Obama's five-point advantage in the June poll, and the GOP nominee continues to lead among men in Virginia, 46-42 percent, and trail among women, 46-41 percent. Independent voters are split 40 percent for Obama and 38 percent for Romney.

Now is the time for gun owners to go "All In" to defeat Obama.