how many new voters can be expected?

[distortionmarshall]

a week or so i was at a bar, with a gothic/fringe dude i know. he told me that he had never voted in any election before, but that he most definitely would vote in november...

essentially, as a result of the great bush experiment, he's learned that every single vote does in fact count - very heartening, if you ask me....

so my question: has anyone else heard similar sentiments? (especially relevant are such statements from traditionally nonvoting demographics...)

[lcordero]

1. 70% turnout?

The first time that I ever voted was last September, it was against the "non-partisan" ballot initiative.

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. Pardon me...but is that

69 smilies?

[lcordero]

8. hehehehe

Yes, yes it is
:D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. In the coffee shop this afternoon

I overheard two women from some organization talking over plans for this year. One of them brought up the idea of registering new voters, and so they sat there drawing up plans to register 5,000 new voters in time for the election. I know they were liberal, because they talked about how their real aim was to get Bush out, but being a non-profit organization, they couldn't actually say that, just register voters on a non-partisan basis.

I also know that different ethnic groups in the Twin Cities are sponsoring caucus and voting workshops.

[HydroAddict]

3. Here's a similar statement...

I haven't voted since '92. But I'm NOT sitting this one out. And with all the BS that has gone down, I'll never sit-out again.

In 2000, I couldn't support Holy-Joe, and I'm in Texas anyway (recommended Nader at the time). I never would have thought the criminal boy was gonna steal the election.

In short, I'm completely disgusted with republicans. And I'm 100% ABB. I don't care if Dem nominee is a monkey molester, I'll still vote against the LIHOP'n, CIA Out'n, War Mongering, Tax Wasting, UN Buggin, kick-back givin', civil right's abuse'n, theocracy want'n, corporate controlled (well dems are too, IMO), murdering, lying fascists.

And I’m an upper-class straight white-guy, BION.

[mac2]

4. They'll vote if they are unemployed...in the National Guard, etc.

If Bush has effected their life negatively.

[In Truth We Trust]

5. More importantly...

How do we gaurantee a fair accounting of the votes cast. I am sure there will be a higher than average turnout due to so many Americans being disaffected by the "selected" bushies. But what scares me is that you hear poll results saying he is at 50% popularity when I know this just can not be so. My point is that there is a huge machine with boatloads of corp. money and mass media support that are going to do everyhting in their power to retain their power. We need paper ballots with dem. eyes counting and validating as well as other mechanisms in place to assure what will be a dem landslide without any repuke intervention (stealing it again)

[lcordero]

9. what is needed is to have every single voter

outside the polls screaming obscenities from the time it opens to the time that it closes.

[neverborn]

7. Lots.

Bush has energized me and others. I didn't care about politics until I saw what Bush has done to our country. I joined the Dean campaign, and am now firmly ABB.

I'm trying to get outgoing seniors at my high school (I'm 16) to register and vote Democrat.

This city is hard-line Republican. Our Representative has run unopposed for a few terms, and the Republican representative before him ran unopposed as well. Illinois is dyed-in-the-wool blue, but Peoria consistently goes red.

I have talked to maybe two seniors in high school who would even think of voting Republican in November.

I have talked to maybe two teachers who would even think of that - and they happened to be my English teachers. When the chance to write an open-topic essay came along, I wrote a paper on why you should vote Dem in November. Two more converts to our side! ;)