Most were bad numbers, I got a few hang ups but 98% of those I talked to either voted or are voting McCain

Those called, I was told, are mostly independents

I also believe that letters by Catholic bishops to their flock made in the last week have brought
more Catholics to vote for McCain/Palin

I am not Catholic but as a pro-life Protestant I certainly agree with the article below and sent it to my Catholic friends;

U.S. Bishops Come out Swinging against Abortion, Pro-Abort Politicians
Finn says, "A significant new attack on innocent human life will likely send us into a moral freefall that would rival any financial decline"

By Jonquil Frankham

Friday, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In these final weeks before the American election, many US bishops are working hard to leave Catholics no doubt of where they must stand on the abortion issue when it comes to the ballot box.

Bishops Robert W. Finn of Kansas City, Robert Hermann of St. Louis, and Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore have all penned strongly worded columns on abortion in the last few days, calling on their flocks to vote pro-life and to support the pro-life cause more generally, describing the November election as one that comes down to "saving our children or killing our children." "This," says Bishop Hermann in the St. Louis Review, "is the overriding issue facing each of us."

The letters provide no room for equivocation or rationalization. "All other issues ... have to take second place to the issue of life," writes Bishop Hermann, whose article particularly targets "so-called good Catholics," regular church-goers who receive the Eucharist but "are quite ready to vote for a pro-abortion candidate under almost any circumstance."

The bishops agree that everything is on the line.

They are unanimous in their approach to the coming election. "Do some of our so-called good Catholics, who may go to Mass every Sunday and receive the Holy Eucharist, really believe that voting for a pro-abortion candidate, when there is a clear alternative and therefore no justifiable reason for so doing, is really not voting to have children killed?" questions Bishop Hermann. "This election is all about saving our children!"

Bishop O'Brien, whose column did not specifically address the question of voting, nevertheless had strong words for those who would support abortion. "Those who claim we have a 'right' to take innocent life usurp God's dominant claim on every human being," he said.

O'Brien urged professedly pro-life politicians to begin putting their beliefs into action. "To our elected officials who value innocent human life in the womb, a reminder and a plea: there are any number of ways within our Constitution to advance the protection of innocent human life. Is it not reasonable and honorable to take some steps, however small, to pursue that goal?" he said.

Some Catholics have expressed concern that neither John McCain nor Barack Obama are worthy candidates, due to the former's support for intrinsically evil embryonic stem cell research, and the latter's support not only for embryo research, but also for abortion. Bishop Finn responds to the concern by declaring that, when faced with two "imperfect" candidates, "we should choose the candidate whose position will likely do the least grave evil, or whose position will do the most to limit the specific grave evil of abortion."

It is the duty of all members of the Church, writes Bishop O'Brien, to fight "in defense of innocent human life." The Church "has no choice, but with love and compassion for all, to speak out" because "she sees the right to life as the basis of all other rights."

Bishop Finn tells Catholics firmly that to vote for a candidate for whom the unborn child is not to be protected under law is to disregard "the lessons of history by which African Americans ... were once regarded as non-persons; or the Jews in Europe were once marked for genocide or racial purification." Bishop Hermann also drew the comparison of abortion to past genocides.

"Our country," warns Bishop Finn, "is at the edge of the precipice concerning the protection of the life and dignity of the human person. A significant new attack on innocent human life will likely send us into a moral freefall that would rival any financial decline. The price for such a 'walk over the cliff' is millions more human lives for many more years to come."

To read the three columns see:

Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2008/10/way-of-life....

Bishop Robert Hermann of St. Louis
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=30126

"I, Kevin Rex Heine, do solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same . . . so help me God."

I have posted elsewhere on this site that I consider a politician (and a presidential contender, no less) whose intention is to pervert that sacred founding document of our country into the instrument of its own destruction to be the greatest domestic threat envisionable.  I am duty bound before God and Man to oppose that threat with the last drop of my blood and my dying breath.  If that American Nazi wins on Tuesday, then it most certainly shall not be because I didn't do my job on the field of battle.

That's right; I just called Barack Obama a pervert.  Quote me.

Over the past two days I've "papered" almost the entire Second Precinct of Wyoming for Harold Mast and G/R's 3rd Ward, 31st Precinct for Nadine Klein . . . by myself.  My back, knees, and ankles are demanding mercy or they'll go on strike.  (Anyone know where I can find a good massage therapist?  Seriously, I'm going to need one.)

And when I'm here at KCRC-HQ (and not either prepping for or debriefing from a paper walk), I'm researching / writing posts for RM, assisting with any random grunt work that needs to be done, phone banking, or providing the mutual support, encouragement, and steady calm that helps everyone here take a round turn on their efforts and batten down for one more salvo.  (The other experienced hands here do it too.)  We're in the endgame, and this civil war we call a presidential election is still winnable for the good guys.

Don't believe me?  Check out this article in today's Grand Rapids Press.  Yup, I said it, this election is still winnable, and what I see on and from the front lines supports that.  By the way, here's the picture that didn't get run in the "dead tree" version of the Press:

That's a cavalry-style hat, for those of you not familiar with western wear.

I've already cited the example of John Paul Jones at Flamborough Head as an example of just how far refusing to surrender can get you; allow me another personal hero as a like example, this one inspired by the fact that this is Reformation Weekend.

Just about everyone who's even a casual student of history can correctly identify Martin Luther as the matchstick that started the Protestant Reformation, and as the founder of Confessional Lutheran Theology.  But only the true history buff can correctly identify either the Catholic Pope or the Holy Roman (read: German) Emperor who opposed him and demanded that he either recant his teachings wholesale or be excommunicated and branded an outlaw for life.

That "outlaw's" teachings survive today in the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference.  For what it's worth, Luther's genealogical lineage survived at least as far as Paul von Hindenberg - the 2nd President of Germany (and the guy who at least tried to stop Hitler's rise to power).

I'll also mention the Prophet Elijah, who was rebuked by the Lord and told that there were yet seven thousand faithful in Israel.  Elijah was not alone, just the guy out in front, taking the heat so those seven thousand would have a tangible example to encourage their faithfulness.

Likewise, we know the truth about Barack Obama.  (Hey, my pieces on the Presidential Candidate Issue Positions and the Audacity of Socialism show up on the first page of the respective Goodle searches.)  And regardless of consequence, we all realize that the truth is our most powerful weapon against the American Nazi scourge; the best thing we can do is to keep it out in the open.  Tnd those of us who aren't afraid to "go public" with our preferences are making life easier for the "closeted republicans" - which is fine with me, as long as they're out of the closet when they're in the voting booth.

Just my take.  Let's "git er done."