They say peer-to-peer voter contact makes a difference in the turnout among young voters: Yale professors "[Donald] Green and [Alan] Gerber have studied numerous phone-banking campaigns and found that volunteer phone banks are more effective than professional phone banks; they have consistently found a 3-5 percentage point increases in turnout among voters contacted by phone. Green and Gerber attribute the ineffectiveness of professional phone banks to their impersonal nature. . ." ("Green/Gerber Studies," <http://www.newvotersproject.org/research>). Call your friends and acquaintances and see if the same method works among voters on the left.
BTW, anyone lives in the 25th District of New York, where James T. Walsh <http://www.house.gov/walsh/>, the Republican incumbent, is seeking the 9th (!) term, *unopposed* by the Democratic Party? If so, vote for Howie Hawkins.
"Hawkins vs. Walsh: Walsh's Voting History -- Side by Side Comparison of Walsh vs. Howie's Stances on Issues": <http://www.hawkins4congress.org/archives/000067.html>. -- Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * OSU-GESO: <http://www.osu-geso.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>