Summary of Gretta's Nifong segment:
1. Begins with the two woman organizing to get student to vote in the DA election.
2. The two young woman say they have handed out a couple of hundred registration form and have 30 or so already.
3. Goal is to have 2000 Duke students registered.
4. Say they are not endorsing a candidate.
5. Gretta asks about what 2000 would mean in this primary. They point out that turnout may not be great.
6. Gretta asks if 2000 votes against Nifong would get rid of him.
7. Gretta asks if they know lacrosse players. They say yes, but they know lots of people.
8. Gretta ask what they think about Nifong's handling the case. One says they think he has been in error from the start.
Not much here but back on the cable circuit which is good.
I heard it on XM radio. In the context of the case, not much added but . . . there was always an apathy on the part of Duke students to get involved in Durham voting; most students who voted did do in their home states. That said, there are enough eligible potential student voters at Duke to make a difference in local elections. Good for them, hope they nail that sniveling, lying creep in an open democratic process.
The only downside I see is that Nifong will use this as a campaign theme, further whipping up anti-Duke sentiment (i.e. poor, poor me, those rich Dukies are trying to get me, don't let those rich yankees get away with it!) All of us who attended Duke always knew there was an anti-Duke sentiment in the community but did not understand hte depth of hatred until this happened. Nifong already demonstrated a willingness to deal the race card fromn the bottom of the deck, he will certainly be willing to make hte election Duke v. Durham.
They were there to get a message out to Duke students, and their appearance on Greta tonight did just that.