Monday, November 01, 2004
Kos:
Ground games, compared
by kos
Mon Nov 1st, 2004 at 22:57:59 GMT
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Reports from the early voting are trickling in and, at least in two make-or-break battleground states, show a pretty dramatic preference for John Kerry over George W. Bush. In Florida, the latest Gallup poll showed that about a third of the polled voters had already cast ballots and that Kerry led 51 percent to 43 percent among them. In Iowa, according to The Des Moines Register, 27 percent of those polled by Saturday had already voted, and Kerry was similarly favored 52 percent to 41 percent by the early birds.
In Cedar Rapids on Friday, Don Palmer, a retired engineering manager and foot soldier in the Republican voter drive, got a taste of party disloyalty after he knocked on Sharon Wellington's door.
The voter profile assembled by the party on Mrs. Wellington showed she was a Republican and a highly likely supporter of Mr. Bush, Mr. Palmer said. (The Republican Party bought mailing lists from the National Rifle Association and other conservative groups, and meshed them with other databases and county election records.)But Mr. Palmer wilted when she told him that she supported abortion rights, blamed Mr. Bush for the national debt and anguished over Iraq for "going on and on, and I don't see an end." She said she would vote for Mr. Kerry.
Mr. Palmer said that in all, about 30 percent of the people the party had identified as likely supporters of Mr. Bush said they were voting for Mr. Kerry.
GOTV!
Posted at 08:10 pm by blog swarm
