Registration is all the rage
Notice an unusually large number of clipboard-wielding folks outside your neighborhood grocery store or Dollar Tree?
About 200 people attended a rally today at Governmental Plaza to hear Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean talk about the importance of grassroots voter registration drives. Many of those in the crowd dispersed with packets of registration forms once the speech - part of Dean's Southern-state "Register for Change" bus tour - ended. Each packet included a map and a section of town to canvass.
Dean said Sen. Barack Obama will win the upcoming presidential election if his supporters actively encourage their friends and neighbors to vote.
"One of the things I like the most about Barack Obama is that he understands that America is at its best when everybody is part of the community," Dean said. "This is going to be neighbors knocking on neighbors doors. So the truth is, Barack Obama's not going to win, I'm not going to win, Jerry Meek - the chairman of the North Carolina party - is not going to win. You're going to win this one."
Check out Decision 08 for more from Dean on reaching out to North Carolinians and why he isn't "allowed to do lists."
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