Early Voting Shaping Campaign Operations

Submitted by Andres Ramirez on 10/2/08

Las Vegas, NV - The conversation about Early Voting continues on throughout the country fueled in part by a court ruling in Ohio in which the Republican Party was attempting to prevent the state of Ohio from allowing a window in which citizens could register to vote and cast a ballot early essentially providing a temporary same-day registration period. The Republican Party lost the suit and Early Voting began this week in Ohio.

Early Voting has now been in practice for several election cycles and could prove decisive in several battleground states. In Nevada, it is expected that more than half of all voters will cast ballots before election day. The Washington Post writes that Nov. 4 Isn't the Only Election Day.

The early-voting trend does not benefit one party over the other, experts say, because each is targeting infrequent voters. On the Democratic side, that means urban, often minority voters and students. On the Republican side, it is older voters and those in more rural areas who favor absentee ballots.

For both campaigns, the numbers are critical. In the highly competitive states of Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado, nearly half of voters are expected to cast ballots early this year, Gronke said.

In Ohio, early voting has shaped the candidates' operations.

Enthusiasm in Ohio over Early Voting prompted people to pitch tents and wait to be the first to cast a ballot. Seeing so many people excited about participating in our democracy and casting a ballot is a positive sign for our country.

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The eyes of...

Submitted by PaydayLoanAdvocate (not verified) on 10/22/08.

The eyes of the American nation were fixed upon
Hempstead, New York, on Wednesday, October 14th, 2008, for the third and final U.S.
Presidential Debate. The Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, of Illinois, went
into the debate with an eight point lead, and he was indeed content with it.
The Republican candidate, Sen. John
McCain brought it hard to his opponent, challenging his expertise,
character, judgment and proposed policies. Obama’s position on
the economic policies of the last eight years was far more
critical than McCain’s, though he maintained that he is “not President Bush.”
Both pledged that they would make cuts in the federal budget, McCain
pledging to enact an “across the board spending freeze,” and
take a hatchet to some programs whilst using a scalpel on others. Obama’s
take was to “go through the federal budget page by page, line by line”
in order to cut out those programs that are dysfunctional. Both of the candidates
pledged to bring the change that America needs, but what does that
mean? For instance, many politicians want to do away
completely with the payday loans industry.
Should they succeed, it will mean the end of the freedom to choose for the
consumer, and the triumph of certain interest groups (the banks and credit
unions, who have gotten themselves in enough trouble already) over the freedom
of we, the American People.

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