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Ohio Dems struggle to repeat '08 ground game
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Oct 22, 2010 04:14pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | CHUCK RAASCH |
| News Date | Friday, October 22, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Samantha Sekar believes she has persuaded at least 20 people to vote for Democratic candidates this fall, but on a gorgeous autumn Saturday on the edge of Ohio State University, the going is tough.
She knocks on door after door, looking for students who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and who might be persuaded to vote for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, and other Democrats in the Nov. 2 elections. Such targeting is crucial to modern get-out-the vote efforts.
But after two hours, Sekar, a 20-year-old environmental science major from Cincinnati, finds only one Obama voter who is living where she did in 2008. And she did not know who Strickland was, although she promised to consider voting for him.
At a fraternity house, when Sekar asked the whereabouts of several men on the 2008 list, the young man at the door asked her if she was serving subpoenas. Sekar laughed and said no. But none of her targets lived there any more, and as she continued on in a neighborhood where pre-football game parties spilled onto front porches and lawns, the daunting organizational task facing the Democrats became clear.
They are trying to revive Obama's '08 grassroots coalition, without him on the ballot, amidst high unemployment and voter anger, targeting transient voters who traditionally do not vote in non-presidential years. Despite these challenges, Democrats think their ground game could make a difference in close races in states like Washington, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio. |
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