I too think Kerry's speech was well done. Kerry seemed to throw in a few random gestures, but otherwise,he did well.
I don't know what's going to happen with voter turn out. Although, without getting into too many gory details here, let me tell you what the Democratic party is working on- recent studies show that "unmarried women" of all ages, with and without children, single/widowed/divorced are a growing voting demographic. Studies show that EEP who is single is statistically more likely to vote like her widowed grandmother than like her married mother. That additionally, this new voting demographic is 22 million women and that they have the poorest voting turn out of any group. But, when they do vote, they vote Democrat 70% of the time. The reasons they don't vote are also interesting: a) they know all the issues and are well versed on politics, b) but they don't think anyone cares what they think so they don't vote, c) and they feel that the people elected to office are so unlike themselves that they don't feel represented in the first place.
Interesting study, it showed that if unmarried women had voted in the same numbers that married women had voted in, that Gore would have won by a landslide.....
So if you're looking to get out the Dem vote, that's the place to start.
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Kerry stuff
Date: 2004-08-02 12:57 pm (UTC)I don't know what's going to happen with voter turn out. Although, without getting into too many gory details here, let me tell you what the Democratic party is working on- recent studies show that "unmarried women" of all ages, with and without children, single/widowed/divorced are a growing voting demographic. Studies show that EEP who is single is statistically more likely to vote like her widowed grandmother than like her married mother. That additionally, this new voting demographic is 22 million women and that they have the poorest voting turn out of any group. But, when they do vote, they vote Democrat 70% of the time. The reasons they don't vote are also interesting: a) they know all the issues and are well versed on politics, b) but they don't think anyone cares what they think so they don't vote, c) and they feel that the people elected to office are so unlike themselves that they don't feel represented in the first place.
Interesting study, it showed that if unmarried women had voted in the same numbers that married women had voted in, that Gore would have won by a landslide.....
So if you're looking to get out the Dem vote, that's the place to start.
D- sorry I'm a political junkie.