Tonight, I dropped by the Lafayette Obama Office and talked to Bess about the efforts we've made locally to register voters. My student group has been working to register all seniors and eligible juniors at West Lafayette High School-- about 20 new ones. In addition, I got six new voters at the PQSU Homo Estas event last night. I'm getting to be known as "the guy with the registration forms". I even had a student drop by my room because the high school office directed him to me.
So, I was looking forward to seeing Jeremy Pivens at Purdue tonight. When I got there over an hour early, I was like person 180. Since the room held about 183 and there were easily 500 people in line, I passed on the event -- so that someone undecided could be charged up by Pivens. I already know why I support BO and can easily expound on those reasons.
This just shows me that we need to keep pushing. The youth on campus and in the high schools are fired up to vote. Now that we have them registered (and we're still working that angle).. we have to get them to the polls as well.
By the way, Tippecanoe County will have early voting On April 17 and 18th on campus. This will even allow students to vote early before dead week and finals. NO EXCUSES!!
One last question: Have you registered anyone to vote this week? Students for BO have registered over 600 in less than a week! I'll post the info for the weekend registration drives later. GO---BAMA!!!
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