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Part Two today is an exceptionally inspirational reminder that calls to your attention all that you can still do as an individual and as a member of a RTL chapter to help at this particularly key juncture. Please take the time to read "Important Last-Minute Reminder: It All Begins With You" and to pass it along to family, friends, and colleagues.

I've mentioned several times the crucial importance of keeping our noses to the grindstone and to ignoring the cavalcade of "advice" from a "mainstream media" (almost entirely in the camp of pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama) to just get out of the way of his coronation. Let me offer you some thoughts why your efforts can make a pivotal, even potentially decisive difference.

* Never be taken in, let alone mesmerized, by public opinion polls. I don't mean by that the cliche that polls are a mere "snapshots" of something that is far more dynamic. There are three reasons why you should give less credence to them than ever.

1. As has been pointed out by Jay Cost, "In 1996, 30% of respondents claimed to make up their minds a day to a month before the election. In 2000, that number was also 30%. In 2004, 21% of the public made that claim." That's a lot of people still up for grabs. Compounding that unpredictability is that no election in memory has been this volatile.

2. Polls are "weighted" so that they account for what the pollster assumes is the percentage of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. If that is not correct, or not the particular mix of people who vote November 4, the tabulations are off. Also some pollster hone in on "registered voters" while others zero in on "likely voters."

3. As difficult as it is to believe, there are many people who are still vaguely uncertain about Sen. Obama. They have heard that he is a conciliator, the kind of man who isn't your average down the line pro-abortionist. That's true. He is far worse! When it comes to planting the seed of truth, think of the "mainstream media" as rock-hard soil. They are doing everything to keep the American public from knowing that Obama is relentlessly pro-abortion and that he has publicly assured pro-abortion groups that they can count on him to advance their broadest anti-life agenda.

** Sen. Obama finished his party's primary running on fumes. Pro-life Sen. John McCain finished the Republican presidential primary by easily defeating his foes. This does not prove the same dynamic will hold true over the next 26 days, but it does suggest Sen. McCain has enormous staying power.

*** Lastly, there is the Sarah Palin factor. It is so true as to be trite but that doesn't make it any the less significant: The pro-life governor of Alaska has energized people in a way I have not seen since I joined the cause in the 1970s. Ohio and Pennsylvania are important to the McCain-Palin ticket. Gov. Palin's blue-collar, down-home appeal "fits" both states like a glove. Tonight this self-described "hockey mom" drops the puck for the home opener of the Philadelphia Flyers professional hockey team.

All this is said for one purpose: no matter what you are told, this election will not be decided until the first Tuesday in November. Please take the opportunity to read Part Two, "Important Last-Minute Reminder: It All Begins With You" and to pass it along to family, friends, and colleagues.

Part Two -- Important Last-Minute Reminder: It All Begins With You