Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Missing Piece: Voter Registration



As Super Tuesday draws closer, the campaigns should be turning their attention towards registering voters and spreading the word about their candidates.  However, it seems that potential voters have not yet been approached.
By Wednesday, only 26 seniors had registered to vote, and every single one had been recruited by the Rusher campaign.  Are the other campaigns ignoring this very important state?  And why have the more than 50 remaining seniors not been registered?
The Daily Dish has also determined that the campaign teams have not yet approached many teachers, including at least one Lower School teacher who showed a desire and willingness to become involved.
It seems that the teams are spending too much time arguing with one another and not enough on "pressing the flesh".  Just today, the Campbell and Eagles campaigns fought over candidate support and disloyalty.  Stationed inside campaign headquarters, the Daily Dish reporters again witnessed shouting, quarreling, and near fistfights.  Voters will soon become weary of these constant feuds, and by then it may be too late for the campaigns to sway them.
The Daily Dish is alarmed by these facts and wonders if the campaigns will solve this problem before Election Day.

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