If you’re one of our American friends, and you live in the Big Smoke, then your country needs you! Yes, it may be 3,500 miles away (that’s about the closest point, isn’t it?), but it does need you.

Or rather: the Obama London meet-up group needs you.

These guys are doing sterling work trying to get out the vote over here in London – calling registered Democrats, canvassing areas where Americans go (clue: the Whole Foods store is one of them) and generally trying to make sure that no American in London goes uncovered. Or at least unregistered to vote.

The group meets every Monday in central London, so you can get down there tonight if you read this in time.  Go to the group’s meet-up page here to find out more – including how to help out, even if you can’t make a Monday meeting.

Oh, and if you’re just a Brit who happens to know any Americans – please tell them that they need to register their vote, like, erm, now. Send ‘em to this link.

(NB. Brits are also welcome to join the meet-up group, but there’s a limit to what we can do. Phone banking goes down better when it’s not done by someone who talks like Hugh Grant, for example.)

As predicted: it appears that Obama and Biden are just having to do what they do, and do it well – keep calm and measured, talk about the issues and not dumb down, keep it clean and not sink as low as their opponents – and hey presto: they can watch the Republicans ruin their chances all by themselves.

The American public aren’t stupid – they’ve just been misinformed.  I truly think that 2008 is the election year that this here interweb thing has come into its own.