Posted on 12/26/2007 2:44:33 AM PST by Caipirabob
When Hillary Clinton’s volunteers and staffers stand at the back of their candidate’s events, they sometimes play a game one observer called “count the oxygen tanks and wheelchairs.”
Barack Obama’s Iowa troops have their own rituals in the days leading up to the crucial Jan. 3 caucus — one of them is making sure that the high school kids who swarm Obama’s appearances turn 18 in time to vote.
If the Clinton-Obama confrontation figured to be a clash of gender and racial pathfinders, it has turned out in large measure to be a generational battle. Obama is gunning for 80 percent of the under-21 vote, his advisers say, while Clinton is banking on a bedrock of middle-age and elderly voters who make up the majority of caucus-goers. It is a struggle, at least in a youth marketing sense, that has taken on the generation-war vibe of the “Mac vs. PC“ commercials.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
This is why the Rats are having such a hard time in southern Louisiana these days...Katrina destroyed lots of parrish voting records, and they don’t have the manpower to ‘re-enroll’ all those long-time voters residing in local graveyards.
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