Hell, I’d go just to see Bruce Springsteen

A recent post on the blog that The Plain Dealer notes that not quite as many people have turned out for early voting in Ohio as previously thought–“steady traffic but no long lines” is how reporter Mark Naymik put it. Perhaps we were ahead of ourselves to assume that all of the controversy and discussion of early voting actually meant that so many people would do so. I know that the only reason I vote via absentee ballot is because I’m attending school on the opposite side of the country–if I lived in the same district in which I were registered, it would be worth whatever minor hassles cropped up to just go and vote on Election Day like (theoretically) everybody else.

The online article also discussed Obama’s heavy “street campaign” to turn out the vote in Ohio, which includes a free concert by the one and only Bruce Springsteen at Ohio State University. McCain does not appear to be campaigning so overtly, which suggests that he accepts defeat in the Buckeye State where polls show that Obama is ahead of McCain by 8% of those polled.

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Tags: absentee ballot, Bruce Springsteen, early voting, Mark Naymik, McCain, Obama, Ohio, Ohio State University, polls, street campaign, The Plain Dealer, turn out the vote

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