Posted on 10/23/2020 10:30:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA
MADISON, Wis, — A small but steady stream of masked UW-Madison students stopped by voter registration tables outside the unions last week to perform their civic duty. Madison City Clerk's office employees helped them through the paperwork, sanitized their used pens and talked among themselves as they waited for the next students to filter into the fairly empty tents.
The vibe at Wisconsin's largest university in this battleground state just 20 days out from the Nov. 3 election bore little resemblance to the campus atmosphere in the lead-up to the 2018 election when organizers passed out puppies, arranged celebrity visits, installed a bouncy house on Library Mall and wore costumes drawing attention to voter registration tables.
The barrage of activities and outreach two years ago paid off. Census data show turnout among voters ages 18-24 in the state nearly doubled from the previous two midterm elections, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
But COVID-19 threatens that momentum and complicates an already confusing process for those newly eligible to cast ballots.
For example, National Voter Registration Day fell this year on Sept. 22, a day when two of UW-Madison's largest dorms were under quarantine, nearly 500 infected students were sequestered in isolation housing and few others had reason to come to campus because all classes had temporarily moved online.
"Without having that face-to-face contact to show them what they need, it's a lot harder to describe the (registration) process to a student over the phone," UW-Madison College Democrats press secretary Allyson Fergot said.
The number of young adults casting ballots can have huge electoral consequences, especially for Democrats. Polls show young voters are less likely to identify with a political party but more likely to identify as liberal or progressive.
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Even Obola needed rock concerts to draw crowds. And Joe Briben ain’t no Hussein Obola.
Get out the vote!
But stay home!
Anyone who needs peer pressure or celebrity nagging to get them to go vote shouldn’t be voting anyway.
Don’t forget to vote on November 4, you budding geniuses
Schools colleges and universities all closed and students in their parents parent’s basement...so no college activists... no helping Seniors with their votes or collecting their vote forms.....students will have to vote at home.
I like the sound of that. Fear of Covid working for a Trump win.
It’s crazy. I’ve read that youth vote has been historically high so far and now I read it might be low. Who knows. Just vote.
The Red Star finally figured out one reason why the Democrats are going to crash and burn in Minnesota.
C’mon, Red Star. Lets see some more “coronavirus cases rising” and “coronavirus deaths rising” articles.
You can do this! ;-)
The youth Early Vote compared to 2016 is huge (3.5 million so far). But 24 million 18-30 year olds voted in 2016, so they have a long way to go. Are they going to show up for Sleepy Joe, without peer pressure? Or just play video games
The best thing that President Trump can do after he is re-elected is to follow through on school choice for K-12. He mentions in in every rally.
That, and packing the federal judiciary would be a great legacy.
It is DEFINITELY going to lower turnout among the college age crowd.
The fact that it’s been Donkeys pushing the lockdowns and now Donkeys aren’t going to get one of their more reliable voting blocks to the polls is ........karma.....poetic justice......absolutely hilarious.
The students have been slo joe’d to the basement just like joe
“Fewer get-out-the-vote events might lower student turnout”
Great. So they’ll only vote once.
I doubt they will be bussing people in to vote for the same reasons.
especially since most are not on campus but rather at home.
covid making students stay at home may have one positive...those parents who work and talk to their kids can give some education to them just by watching parents pay bills, get groceries, go to work...not socialism.
LS, I seem to recall you mentioning this once or twice this campaign season.
If you take a look at the Events page of the Trump campaign website, you will see numerous GOTV events all over the country. The Biden “Campaign” has almost no ground game at all because they are too afraid of the virus to send people out to knock on doors or hand out literature. Trump’s people are knocking on over a MILLION doors a week and have been doing that for months.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events/
My calculation of 40% turnout in 2018 of 16m students nationally x 60% DemoKKKrat students = a -30% shortfall on election day.
This comes to between 1 and 1.5m, depending on your % for “closed” schools. For example, in CA, the entire U Cal and Cal State systems, plus USC and Pomona, are 100% remote. Some other schools are partially open. Other 100% closed schools are MI State, Georgetown, Harvard, Gettysburg College and U of North Carolina.
If the number of completely closed schools is higher, my -30% is probably too low. It might reach -40%. The total missing students could be 2m in the end.
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