DES MOINES, Iowa (Official Wire) — Barack Obama volunteer Marilynn Wadden rang more than a dozen doorbells in her first hour canvassing a tidy neighborhood here before stopping to take stock of her progress. Only a handful of voters were home, and, of them, only one agreed to have a ballot mailed to him so he can vote early. Two people said they supported the president but preferred to vote on Election Day. And another said he would back Mitt Romney.
“I wouldn’t do this for pay. It’d be too discouraging,” Wadden, a 70-year-old retired principal, said. She added that she works to re-elect the president “because in my heart I know how important this is.”
If the race is close here and elsewhere, the outcome may come down to how well Obama volunteers like Wadden do their jobs — compelling everyone they can to go to the polls, especially those who are leaning Obama’s way, but not a sure thing.
National and state polls taken before the first debate show Obama with a comfortable lead over Romney among Americans who are registered to vote. But the surveys also show Obama is locked in a tight race with the Republican among likely voters, a disparity that underscores the importance that turnout efforts will play in determining who wins the White House.
The latest Associated Press-GfK poll, for instance, found Obama with a commanding lead, favored by 52 percent of Americans to just 37 percent for Romney. Yet among those most likely to vote, the race was statistically tied, with Obama supported by 47 percent of likely voters and Romney by 46 percent. In Florida, a recent Washington Post poll showed the president ahead by 9 percentage points among all registered voters but up by just 4 percentage points among likely voters.
Read more at Official Wire. By Philip Elliott.
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Being a retired school principle she is obviously a union member and a Obama butt kisser.
And, obviously too old and stupid to know her butt from her head. We have blamed the young people for a lot, but the blame also lies with the older idiots who have lost their reasoning, and have no business even being allowed to vote, if they are that stupid! Not that I think old people shouldn’t be allowed to vote, only those whose thinking is as impaired as this old bat’s thinking is. She feels that it is “important” to get people to vote, but what she is pushing is the destruction of our country, her country, in pushing this sorry, inept, useless peice of trash back into office. I wish she, or someone like her would come to my door, they wouldn’t leave with a complete rearend, on which to sit! All I can say about this old bat is that she has to have some form of mental disorder, say, being a liberal, a democrap, a progressive, all of which IS a mental disorder. Tell her and her kind to go home, and knit, that is apparently all she and her lefty marxist, communistic, antiAmerican kind are good for. I know, I sound hateful, but the whole idea of people still being so deliberately STUPID, aggrevates me so much that being nice is impossible. If older people aren’t any more intelligent than this, they deserve all that this garbage and his “UNhealthcare” will do to them, and it isn’t good for any of them, they’re old, thus they are expendable, as old people WILL BE IF THIS BILL AND THIS SON OF A WHORE IS RE-ELECTED! I wonder if they truly realize just what, and who, they are supporting? Probably not, all they see is what they want to see……….