A New Group Aims to Turn Deadheads Into Voters

[hexola]

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0411/hallissey.php

At the moment, the nonprofit organization has 150 volunteers and a board of directors that includes Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. "If every Deadhead in the state of Florida had voted in the last presidential election, it would have been a very different world today," says Weir...

http://www.headcount.org

[whistle]

1. I would think that the same could be said of....

...nursing home residents:crazy:

[DenverDem]

2. Your point being?

Why disparage a legitimate voter registration initiative?

What side of the culture war are you on?

[KG]

3. it seems the dem party is more interested

in getting repooks to vote for them, instead of mounting a massive 'get out the vote' / voter registration campaign that would bring in real grassroots support.

[ET Awful]

4. What exactly does encouraging deadheads to vote . . .

have to do with getting republicans to vote?

You can't get any more "grassroots" than deadheads :).

[KG]

5. seems ya might have missed my point.

i think the dems waste way too much resources trying to appeal to those that ain't going to vote for them anyway, rather than doing the hard work of hitting the streets and motivating their traditional base of immigrants, minorities, blue collar workers, and women.

edit - clarity

[markses]

6. Three-word slogan: Tommy Chong, Man.

Our job is to shed light, and not to master....;-)