This week on CNBC and other business news places they discussed the over $1T buyout of the financial markets. Let us see Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, Bear Sterns, AIG and now the entire defunct mortgage portfolio. Basically much of the paper represents most of the US home market, the largest business insurer and a lot of Wall Street and US Banks and they called that Socialism.

Well that might be the common phrase but in reality what brand of Socialism, can you say National Socialism as in the German Fascists....errr....NAZI's who actually invented propaganda spin even in their name. In reality the Fascists are a right-wing form of government where Authoritarians are partnered with BIG BUSINESS and BIG BANKS and the military to operate the state.

Let me review. The government now owns most of America's private property. The government is controlled by the authoritarians in Washington. The military is engaged in a perpetual war of consquests for land and resourcs. Sound familar----yes it does.

You may like watching the cable news to get the latest fix on what they think is important, but I like watching the ground game. Today in the campaign HQ I saw a big sign, the head of the local Peace & Justice Coalition Chapter, are real life 60 year old radical activist. Well at least a middle school teacher who is willing to march provocatively with Nuns and professors, but he is arrested at least once a blue moon. Well he came in by himself to phone bank. When we caught up on things he then said wow this place is hoping. I then showed him my recent spread sheet of volunteers in our 13 precinct team area----now over 175 and growing.

One Hundred and Seventy Five persons in just the upper west side of Colorado Springs! Yes and there are 35 other teams, some as small as a dozen, some over 100 but all functioning. In fact the regional director said this is the same that is going on all over the state!

We have personally contacted 70% of our targeted voter universe of Independents, cross over Republicans and sporadic voting Democrats in our 13 precincts. 70% have had personal conversations. Our data coincides with the most recent poll that Obama is leading in our area, 50% (51% in the IN/ADV of September 18th), this is Colorado Springs, CO---one of the most conservative places in America.

Later I learned our data is consistent with the national trend that only 10-15% of the voters remain undecided meaning that the electorate is making up their minds almost a month earlier than years before. This is good for we have had a big push for mail in balloting and voter registration. Which by the way had more Democrats registered than Republicans between the caucus (January 5th) and primary July 3rd deadline. This even though the Democrats had no contested primary races. Go figure.

The ground game...boring, methodical, unreported and very powerful.  For you TV addicts, this is the big unknown and the fact that there are 15% more voters in the system than in 2004. America is waking up.