That's true. There's also one top (I believe top 10) idea that seems to have been wasted. It is the idea to legalize marijuana, and it is a waste because the Obama team has specifically stated that Obama does not want to legalize marijuana. If that's one of the ideas I'm not sure what they'll do. Since Obama doesn't want it they certainly couldn't do anything with it.
Even if one fourth of the people in that Facebook group voted that would be great. Is there some way for the admin or leader of the Facebook group to send a mass message? --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Victor Jockin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Victor Jockin <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:42261] Re: change.org doubt To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 8:31 AM I agree with David, but it's also noteworthy how few votes there are in general at this point. Supposedly the Facebook pro-metric group has nearly 11,000 members (though most are not actively participating). The leading idea on change.org has fewer than 3000 votes. So that's a reason to keep trying to recruit our supporters. Another thing I notice is that there are some strange items near the top representing very specialized interests (raw milk, hand-made toys). These people may be at organizations where they can muster a few hundred votes with an e-mail blast. So the process is probably not a good index of public opinion. Let's send our own e-mail blasts to people we know, and keep this issue front and center on the Facebook group. From: David Sent: 01/05/2009 8:00 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42260] change.org doubt I think change.org is a great idea and I was surprised to see that we made the second round, mostly because we were in sixth place just a mere day away from the end of the first round. Once I saw that our votes doubled in one day I was so surprised and excited that the idea made it. However, and I hope this doesn't become a trend, but we are very quickly sinking. Well, not really sinking, but we aren't moving anywhere and other ideas are going up so much faster. Our place is hovering at 51 now (and staying in that area) and we need 773 votes to make it into the top 10. Just a few hours ago that was about half, just a mere 400 votes. I don't want to make any doomsday prophecies, but right now it isn't looking so good. But hopefully we'll get surprised again. I think it would be great if we made it into the top 10. And if not, this isn't the one and only chance to become metric.
