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Selling Obama to White America I'm sure the folks at TIME understand two things about politics: timing is everything, and many people vote with their hearts, not their minds. That being said, I was not surprised to see a cover story on Obama's mother - yes, the same mother we have heard so little about until now - to help quell the tide of white America's concern over where his true loyalties lie, in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy. The attempt to portray Obama as a man made in his mother's image was painfully obvious...
Take advantage of the Tar Heel State's new one-stop early-voting program, which runs through May 3. Using old-fashioned direct mail sent to campus mailboxes as well as rallies, concerts and MySpace ads, the campaign is encouraging students to hit polling places now, where they can register to vote and cast their ballots in a single trip. Potential voters can have the nearest polling location sent to them by text message, find it on the campaign's website or call a toll-free phone number...
Based on his past experiences with absentee ballots, Wright believes one-stop-voting numbers could surge in the closing days of the program. If Obama's plan works, he will get a huge boost from the youth vote, as he has in other states. And should he win his party's nomination, his campaign will be able to apply what it learned about targeting students in a general election...
...Though at 26 he was the youngest candidate in the race and had virtually no experience in politics, DeBergalis—who was better known to Cambridge voters as “DeBerg”—turned his age into an advantage by intensively courting the youth vote. His platform spoke directly to college students and recent graduates, focusing on issues such as increased late night transportation and extended restaurant hours...
...ROCK THE VOTE...