Article in the NY Daily News about early voting in NC. Reporter was kind enough to give me a call.
It is interesting to think about how early voting changes things. Dems have better organization, Reps have better cash on hand. Early voting has the effect of allowing organization to win.
Why? Because (1) you can just pester people on the street: Get on the bus! Get on the bus! Vote for us! Vote for us! (2) people who vote early won't hear the ads in the last two weeks, paid for by the Rep money.
A number of people told me, in 2008, they regretted their votes. Bev Perdue ran some remarkably racist ads at the very end. The campaign knew that by then it was too late for the sensible people to take their votes back, and so Bev was free to appeal solely to the wack jobs who were still undecided.
It is interesting to think about how early voting changes things. Dems have better organization, Reps have better cash on hand. Early voting has the effect of allowing organization to win.
Why? Because (1) you can just pester people on the street: Get on the bus! Get on the bus! Vote for us! Vote for us! (2) people who vote early won't hear the ads in the last two weeks, paid for by the Rep money.
A number of people told me, in 2008, they regretted their votes. Bev Perdue ran some remarkably racist ads at the very end. The campaign knew that by then it was too late for the sensible people to take their votes back, and so Bev was free to appeal solely to the wack jobs who were still undecided.
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