Santa Barbara, California, is often called "ground-zero of the environmental movement" because of the 1969 Oil Spill. Nonetheless, two Republicans on the County Board of Supervisors persuaded a third Super to vote for a resolution to withdraw the State's ban on offshore drilling.

Barack Obama received endorsements by three distinguished members of the Guardians of Capital... former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

And it's aimed at people whom I think of as the "persuadables".

I live in a county with two Navy bases and a Republican Congressman who's been re-elected handily for twenty years. I'm a fifty-something, plain-looking, employed, white, male, suburban homeowner. I think I've got some "cred" (at first glance) with my moderate and conservative neighbors.

I try to reach them with just thirteen words...