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With polls suggesting an increased likelihood that Republicans may lose one or both houses of Congress, G.O.P. strategists calculate that a calamitous Category 5 election might be tamed to a merely scary Category 4 if they can somehow conjure a solid turnout of evangelical voters, the white suburbanites who fill the megachurches and can usually be counted on even in light-turnout elections like midterms. Party operatives plan to devote the election's closing weeks to courting Christians more intensely than any other single stripe of the electorate, all but begging the parishioners to give them one more chance even...
...still important to go to the polls and let our voices be heard ... Take about five people with you and vote. It would be a sin not to." The Family Research Council has been e-mailing "No Time to Be Complacent" bulletins and held a Liberty Sunday turnout rally at the base of Boston's Beacon Hill that was televised to hundreds of church-fellowship halls, evening services and small-group meetings. These leaders have calculated that remaining aloof would just diminish their power. "You only gain clout by activity," says Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense...
...Republicans are counting on their vaunted Ohio turnout operation, though they concede it will only make a difference if their candidates can get to within striking distance by Election Day - say, within four or five points in the polls. And the Democrats' allies say they have also learned a thing or two since 2004 about bringing their voters to the polls. Where an anti-gay-marriage initiative energized religious groups in 2004, labor says its forces are seeing the same effect from a measure this year that would raise the state minimum wage. Ohio AFL-CIO President William Burga says...
...UC’s other recent offerings have been slim pickings, at best. Last semester, one open forum was organized, but was never followed up. The UC apparently took the reasonably good turnout at the event as a sign of success and moved on. It never occurred to anyone that an ongoing series of engagements with undergraduates might be a good way to keep students involved. In particular cases, some UC members’ inactivity has become negligence; when University Hall staffers distributed copies of the curricular review’s most recent reports in dining halls last spring, fully...
...Cheney is hitting the road at a time when party strategists are fretting that their two-year effort to build turnout machines in key states and districts - and to "micro-target" people whose demography suggests they would vote Republican if they turned out - will come to naught because base supporters are so dispirited by Iraq, deficits and the Mark Foley Capitol Hill sex scandal. Leaders of social conservative groups say it's all putting a heavy drag on the party's core of support. But this is exactly where the Vice President has always been strongest, and he's working...