I just send the following to my "Christmas card" list, many of whom do not ever discuss politics. I titled it "Personal Appeal":
A personal appeal from the xxx's:
Do you believe that you are casting your votes tomorrow based on exclusively local issues?
Whether it is admitted or not, the results of the election tomorrow will be taken as a proxy for US participation in the war in Iraq by this Administration.
Please consider what voting for a continued Republican majority for Congress communicates to the man who claimed a mandate after the 2004 election. At that point, the President said "would spend his political capital".
Two years later, and billions spent, is this how you trusted things to be designed?
If not, I would urge you to give your support to the Democratic candidate for any Federal office on November 7-- if only for this one cycle!