On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:05:32PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: > > Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [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!