Hardtimes Boost Turnout for Obama

Submitted by Maggie Barker Taylor on 11/6/08
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Over the past couple of months, and especially this last week, I've spent many hours walking the city of Cincinnati, banging on doors and talking to voters as a volunteer with the Obama campaign. The city's small urban core is economically diverse, a patchwork of single-family homes with stunning Ohio River views, working class African-American and white American communities, and distressing pockets of dilapidated homes and piles of trash. The more unemployment, vacant buildings, and empty houses I observed, the more Obama-Biden signs and stickers stuck in windows and on lawns.

The economy, as we know, was issue number one in this election. In exit polls conducted yesterday (as reported by the New York Times), 6 in 10 voters said the economy was the most important issue facing the country. Most of these voters went for Obama. Four out of five voters said they worried that the economic crisis would harm their family's finances over the next year. Again, these voters went for Obama. About 4 in 10 voters said their family's financial situation was worse today than four years ago. These voters went for Obama three to one.

We'd be fools to think that Obama and his team can work miracles for our economy. But in the final months of his campaign, he addressed our country's economic downturn head-on, without fear. He didn't try to change the subject or pull political stunts. If nothing else, he gave off the impression that he understood the struggles of everyday Americans who work hard to make a living, or who've been denied a chance to compete in a 21st century economy. Even to Joe the Plumber, Obama took the time to explain his tax plan, with patience and concern. His tax plan seeks to take the burden off the middle class and asks the wealthiest of Americans to, well, share the wealth. Income inequality robs economic resources from our middle class, entrepreneurs, small business owners -- the true engines of our economy. Obama offers hope at a time of uncertainty and for now, that's good enough.

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