Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Looking Ahead

This was in an e-mail I received earlier today from the state chairwoman of the Obama grassroots effort in Connecticut:

Sneak preview -- the campaign is launching a nationwide voter registration drive. On May 10th in each state, there will be a statewide kick-off. Ours will be in Hartford and we are locking down a venue today -- Pope Park. By having this drive early, we can capture many of the high school students before they go off to college and elsewhere. We can also get an early start on same prior to the general election.


We will surely have phone banking to NC and IN, and to the remaining states after that - but there is a definite sense in the Obama grassroots world that the focus is shifting to McCain and the general, though as Ben Smith points out, there may be some superdel courting going on as well. (Some background here.)

UPDATE: Media: who cares about voter registration?