I’m apparently the only person who believes this, because I’ve floated the idea several times and had no takers, but I am firmly convinced that drive-time top-of-the-hour headline news is far and away the most important news source in the country. And there, even Fox radio news is just the AP radio service ( listen to Shep Smith during Hannity at 4 or 5 PM). I heard a discussion on NPR, of all places , yesterday afternoon between a Republican and Democrat pollster. The Democrat opined the the Democrats won the “low information” voter segment handily (at least she’s honest, we always hear about how smart and educated the Democrats are). I’ll bet that drive -time radio news on music stations is the only info they get, and listen to it! Last week, it was all BO campaigns here, there and everywhere with excerpts from his hackneyed speeches, which isn’t news at all. Yes, conservatives have a feast of information, but it is layered in redundancy on the same 20 % of the electorate.
It seems to me that you are onto something there.
Yep. Those people only get their information from ads, they never bother to understand the candidates. Nexttime, we’d have better luck advertising in STAR or National Enquirer.
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I agree it should receive more attention. The article also mentioned that Toomey focused more on GOP voters who are typically lower frequency participants. I find that interesting. In a training session I was advised to focus GOTV efforts on high-frequency voters. I ignored the advice and went door to door among all GOP and Independent voters in my district. I didn't get to all of them, but I got to most. I'm eager to see how my district turnout looked compared to others. I think it must make a difference. We had turnout comparable to or exceeding the last presidential race. This is in Montgomery County, and although Sestak carried our district, we generated a lot of votes for Toomey and kept the margin smaller than I had expected.
A tip I received from another committee person is to line up block captains to help provide personal coverage in neighborhoods. By walking the district, and by talking to volunteers at the polls, I have lined up one definite assistant for the next campaign, and one or two more who would probably do it happily if I asked. I'm convinced that we need to provide more personal contact and more information of a non-attack nature. Many citizens are sick of being bombarded by negative information and sick of being treated like idiots.