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...intense a focus of inspiration and rage as he was four years ago, but he's still busy. He's published a pocket-size paperback, Mike's Election Guide 2008, which details how the Democrats can win the election (and how they could blow it). He released a movie record of his 2004 tour, Slacker Uprising, free on the Internet, becoming the first major filmmaker to do so. He's got a website, MichaelMoore.com, a cross between the Huffington Post and a community-organizing bulletin board; last month the site pulled in 1.4 million visits. Moore's also...
...America when it played to two packed houses at last year's Toronto Film Festival, the film details Moore's attempt to get young people, traditionally the least likely voters, off their duffs and into the polling booth. Slacker Uprising, shot and edited by Bernardo Loyola, is the hagiographic record of that tour...
...million the next time around. He also took virtually every state Moore campaigned in. So the only suspense in the movie is how Moore will somehow claim victory. He does it at the end by noting that young people, his target audience, voted in record numbers and that they were the only age group to go for Kerry. That's impressive, Pyrrhically, except that Moore's stated purpose in making Fahrenheit 9/11 was to end the Bush regime. Mission not accomplished. Maybe this time...
...addition to independent and swing voters makes for diverse audiences both in age and race. Careful to be inclusive, Obama rarely mentions "Republicans" or "Democrats" except to tell audiences how he'd bring them together. The rallies have also been some of the largest in a campaign known for record-breaking crowds. At most events there is a carefully cultivated atmosphere of history-in-the making, inspiring tens of thousands of people to line up for hours, many taking the day off work or pulling their children out of school for the event. In pouring rain and baking tarmacs they...
...Despite Indiana's presidential voting record, it's hard to predict the outcome of this year's race, which right now looks like a virtual dead heat in the polls. Much of it will depend on how much both slates of candidates can get their supporters to actually show up at the polls. That's why on a recent Wednesday night, Chuck Stouder, a 58-year-old RV plant worker, walked from house to house in a leafy, Elkhart County subdivision. His target: Democrats, and voters who had yet to choose a presidential candidate. Some folks didn't bother opening...