Will Obama’s registration push make the difference?
An Obama voter registration event in St. Louis
Barack Obama’s last-minute registration push in Missouri has caught the attention of the Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket blog, which suggests that the effort might be more meaningful than anything said in the debate Tuesday night.
On this last day of registration, Obama volunteers were spread throughout the city, speedily signing up new voters in “drive-through” registration events around St. Louis.
“These are the kinds of sweaty, unglamorous, off-the-radar strategies that make the real difference on election day,” says the Times’ Andrew Malcolm, “as about-to-be-President John F. Kerry, a Democrat, found out to his unhappy surprise late on election day in 2004 when enough registered evangelicals suddenly showed up in Ohio to prove the early exit polls extremely erroneous and reelect George W. Bush.”
According to Malcolm, the Obama campaign wants to have enlisted 75,000 new Missouri voters before 5 p.m. today. The idea is simple, as Malcom puts it: Instead of trying to persuade existing voters to support your candidate, just add new ones that already support you.
“Just for fun, make a note to check out the Missouri voter tallies come Nov. 4,” Malcolm writes. “See how well they did.”
Like they say in Obama’s home town, “Vote early and vote often”.
Do you think the investigation and removal of fraudulent registrations will occur before or after Nov 4? You can bet Obama’s thinking after.
Sure it will matter if al the illegal registrations are counted from ACORN - they want to steal the election and are under investigation in many states - I hope this is on the FRONT page tomorrow.
You can bet your butt it won’t be on the front page. There will be countless fools on here still defending ACORN and an equal number opposed to the photo ID law.
” . . countless fools. .”
Hey I can count them
1 — Go_Fish
2 — bill Stewart
3 — Amazedbythelunacy
There is not the slightest hint of impropriety in registering as many new voters as possible by the statutory deadline. You people are evil and un-American. You deserve to lose, and I can hardly wait until November 4 to see it happen. In the final analysis, Missouri may not matter anyhow and when I see posts like your, I am sooo grateful for that. By last count, McCain had to pick up no fewer than 6 toss up states to any single toss up state that Obama can land to lock the 270 electoral votes needed for VICTORY.
We should be applauding voter registration drives regardless of what party is behind them. This is good for our democracy.
I like that “so me change” sign, Jake do you know where I could get one?
I had to go to the Tampa Tribune to find a story on voter fraud investigation in Missouri. I wonder if the Post will carry a piece on this tomorrow morning …
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/08/missouri-officials-investigate-voter-registrations/
Nick -
I know it sounds more dramatic to say you went all the way to Tampa Bay to get you news, but the story is an AP newswire story that has been repeated all over Missouri. The problem with that is that everyone is citing the one story.
As a follow-up “all the way from exotic KC MO” here is another link:
http://www.kmbc.com/politics/17664789/detail.html?rss=kc1&psp=news
Please note some of the differences toward the end.
The problem with ACORN and other such groups that pay by the registrations is that there are always lazy people who will fill out duplicates from each other just so they get paid more. Duplicate cards do not constitute fraud.
The “new Voter” the “Young Voter” always makes the difference. One need only ask:
President Gene McCarthy
President George McGovern