Following the Perlmutter campaign in Colorado's 7th.

I have been volunteering a lot for Ed Perlmutter's congressional campaign. The 7th congressional district is one of the most competitive races in the nation. This is one of the two that Dems nationally have their eyes on. The other being the Governor's race, which is becoming Bill Ritter, the Democratic candidate's, to lose. Perlmutter has been running a good campaign. He has been proactive in delivering his message and making the problems with his opponent, Rick O'Donnell, known. His desire to abolish Social Security, and his desire to draft high school boys to do border patrol. On the latter note, I will say, national service in some form may not be a bad idea. However, it should be for everybody, there should be options and those that do it should have graduated high school. O'Donnell was the chair of the CCHE and it is scary to think that someone would say this who held this position. What would these boys do afterwards? Without a High School Diploma. O'Donnell is very scared of how Ed may use it. Rick O'Donnell is a Republican that has been very connected to Bush and Cheney even if he presents himself as an independent voice for the district. He will continue the race to the bottom that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay and Bob Beauprez have started. Education is not important to him appearently. He holds several extreme positions that he doesn't want the voters to know about. He failed to answer 28 questions on a candidate questionaire due to this. It is interesting. Helping out a competitive race, that you can win, but you have to fight for. What more could you ask for? But Rick O'Donnell and the Republicans must be defeated whatever the cost.