On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:05:32PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
Thus spake Harmon Seaver (hseaver@cybershamanix.com) [27/04/04 17:18]: : All of the above, but mostly door-to-door voter registration. When you : consider that both klinton and dubbya were elected with only 13%-14% of the : eligible voters, it wouldn't take all that many new voters to really make a : difference.
"Hi, Sir, my name is Bob and I'm here to educate you about all the candidates in the upcoming election that your eight second attention span will allow me. Oops, I guess I've used it all up. Bye now!"
These things all work in theory, but never in practice.
You obviously have never done any door-to-door. People are quite often very interested. We've had fairly good success organizing people on local issues which affect them, like opposition to street widening. Voter registration is the same thing.
Why bother putting something up in a library? Chances are, if someone's reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the candidates. Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them!
The mention was "giving talks in libraries", which works fairly well. The local library is the logical meeting place for local groups to hold meetings and talks. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com Hoka hey!