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DEL.ICIO.USObama voter drive continues
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you’re taking MARTA through Atlanta this week, you might run into some of Barack Obama’s local supporters.
Fans of the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting will be fan out to local MARTA stations as part of Obama’s voter registration drive. And no, you don’t have to be an Obama supporter to register.
Today, Tuesday and Wednesday they’ll be at the Inman Park station from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Today through Thursday they’ll also set up at the Midtown MARTA station at noon for a lunch-hour registration drive.
Every Monday through Thursday volunteers will also register voters at Woodruff Park and Broad Street Plaza downtown from noon to 3 p.m.
— Aaron Gould Sheinin
Comments
By makeeazymoneytoday.com
June 23, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
i wonder if McCain is holding a voter registration drive anywhere in the State of GA?
By hutch
June 23, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
don’t expect it. there are much more low-income unregistered voters than high-income unregisters voters. low-income people vote for democrats more often than they vote for republicans. when politicians send people out to register people to vote, they target those who, when registered, will be more likely to vote for them. my guess is that the costs of finding and registering low-income people is much less than doing the same for high income people. so, considering the costs and the fact that most voters he would register would probably vote for obama, i would be very surprised if mccain ran any voter registration drives.
By Pompano Pete
June 24, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
These aren’t low or high income people. They’re American citizens. And given that the great state of Georgia has historically done a very effective job of limiting access to registration to many segments of the state’s population, don’t you think this type of effort is badly needed?