[Paul Ross]

The timing of the Social Security attacks were particularly baffling to this veteran of GOP campaigns. “Way too early,” he said. “If they did this the last weekend of the campaign, it would reach seniors, and the Bush folks wouldn’t have time to make a response. But instead they do it now.” The Bush team is responding already, and the attacks will be old news by the time Election Day rolls around.

I thought about this the same way too, until I learned what a vastly disproportionate number of seniors...ARE VOTING RIGHT NOW BY ABSENTEE BALLOT.

[reformedliberal]

Do you have a link for that factoid about seniors voting in vast numbers by absentee?

My county has lots and lots of seniors. We just completed a survey aimed at encouraging absentee voting and we got barely 1% even interested. Most were actually indignant and stated they would vote at the polls, "just like always". We got some folks who will be out of town on elections day and most of them had already made absentee arrangements on their own.

This is rural WI.

[mabelkitty]

They can't do it so easily in Ohio.