ACORN Reaches Out To 2.8 Million Low-Income Voters

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/8483

By Doug Cunningham

ACORN – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now –is conducting a voter outreach program that will reach 2.8 million low and moderate income voters this year. Toni McElroy is ACORN’s Texas State Chair.

"We are targeting African-American, Latino, new immigrant and other underrepresented groups to make sure that we register them to vote, to get out and vote and that we keep them engaged in the process."

ACORN’s goal is to register and mobilize voters who will then support candidates sensitive to the needs of low and moderate income workers.

[Juche]

1. Great

An unspoken fact among politics is that dem turnout is alot lower than GOP turnout. People who lean dem (young, latinos, blacks, the poor, the disabled) have far lower turnout than people who lean GOP (middle aged, whites, evangelicals, the well off). If voter turnout for minorities, young people, poor people and the disabled were 75% instead of the 30-50% it is now, the US would be a far more progressive place politically.

I donate money to MoveOn's political efforts to register new voters. I should probably start giving to ACORN too.