I got a call the other night from someone claiming to be from the AP.
He asked if I were registered to vote.
He asked if I was going to vote, for sure.
He asked me who I was going to vote for.
He asked me if I was going to do early voting.
He asked me that twice.
He asked my age, my name, and then asked which of the people running for Senate I was voting for.
I answered honestly and told him absolutely that I was going to vote on voting day (sure, I said Monday, but I was distracted!) but I said, no no no early voting. I was going to the polls on election day.
So someone, somewhere, is doing a poll to see how early voting is going to represent the final vote. And I have to say... the simple definition of conservatism would suggest that conservatives will be more likely to value tradition. I certainly do. Going *together* to vote seems like an important ritual to me. I don’t like early voting at all. (Even if I figure it should be available for people who *need* it.) |
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One thing to throw into the mix:
Turnout among blacks seems to be running very high. And furthermore, there’s a considerable proportion (according to the news report I saw in today’s Miami Herald) of young newly registered blacks—exactly the sort (because of youth and new registration) who aren’t weighed heavily in the traditional Likely Voter models.
We’ve also been visited by an Obama worker who offered to take my mother to the early voting site this afternoon (she’s an elderly Democratic voter, and obviously they think she’ll vote their way), a robocall urging us to go vote tomorrow (last day of early voting), on top of the two phone calls and one door to door canvasser who came by yesterday. That goes well beyond any get out any GOTV effort I’ve ever seen before.
I’m waiting to vote until Tuesday morning. When I’ll be casting my vote for Barr. |
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