GOP criticizes student get-out-the-vote campaign

[TimeToGo]

I don't know, I just don't know about these guys -- are they -- -crazy?

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GOP criticizes student get-out-the-vote campaign

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Posted: 1:03 PM EDT (1703 GMT)

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Republicans are criticizing a Wisconsin get-out-the-vote campaign involving public school students, saying Democrats are exploiting the students for political gain.

Young people in the program organized by the Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund take time from regular classes to go door to door in minority neighborhoods and areas with historically low voter turnout, urging people to cast ballots.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/10/27/students.vote.campaign.ap/index.html

[bryant69]

1. No

This is a smart strategy. The more voters that vote the better it is for us and the worse it is for them. Historically high voter turnout favors the Democrats and everybody is certainly acting like they think that will hold through this election.

So whilie I find their actions deplorable and anti-American, they are at least rational.

Bryant
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[ramapo]

2. Republicans believe voting is essentially unAmerican

n/t

[endnote]

3. GOP believes voting is an insult to the God-nominated Emperor

[rocktivity]

4. Translation: "The higher the voter turnout, the better for Democrats."

...(The)...co-executive director of Wisconsin Citizen Action denied there is any partisanship to the effort, despite the fact the advocacy group supports Democratic Sen. John Kerry.

The children do not wear any partisan buttons or clothing, and they do not encourage people to vote one way or another. Participation is voluntary, and parents are required to give their approval...

Well, if it's nonpartisan and voluntary, what's the problem--that it will fatten the rolls of newly registered Democratic voters?

:headbang:
rocknation

[NoPasaran]

5. Republicans get all misty-eyed about democracy in Iraq

They're not so happy when it happens in their own neighborhood.

[havocmom]

6. GOP message to students: Shut up and put on a uniform

Corporations have no plans of offering good jobs in America but they do need lots of troops to continue the plans of empire.