This morn­ing, I noticed a new mes­sage on my home answer­ing machine. Barack Obama appar­ently called while I was out. (“Hi, this is Pres­i­dent Barack Obama. I rarely make these calls and I truly apol­o­gize for intrud­ing on your day. But I had to talk to you about the elec­tion in Mass­a­chu­setts on Tues­day because the stakes are so high.”) This after­noon, I picked up the phone and heard another famil­iar voice: “Hello, this is Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton.” He wanted to remind me to vote on Tues­day. Also, to remem­ber that he per­son­ally knows Martha Coakley.

I won­der if one of them would be so kind as to record a new greet­ing for my machine?

This mes­sage was paid for by the Demo­c­ra­tic National Committee.