Low Voter Turnout Is Not Hard To Predict, But Expect!
Its election day indeed BUT it is very easy for me to predict LOW VOTER TURNOUT because we have been through at least two generations of no ongoing voter education we used to have in our churches, community organizations and public schools and for over 20 years our people have been indirectly encouraged NOT to vote because all campaigns and supporters spend the majority of their time and money letting the public know that basically no candidate in the end is worth voting for. Far too many people now base their vote totally on their personality likes of the candidates which by election day the masses could care less about none, so these elections today are based SOLELY on seriously organized established political organizations structures and its membership and the masses are left to media ads and literature the week before in the mail. You can never expect a major turnout when there is no longer the kind of "hands on" grassroots investment from many years past.
And of course during Presidential elections for that is probably the only time that local and national political parties invest in the grassroots field operation versus making the field operations just a higher media budget. As a veteran voter education activist of over 40 years, I NEVER thought I'd see the day when trying to get people to vote would be this hard, but its not something that we should not expect from voters who are not invested in year round but only during the final stages of the election process.
Its election day indeed BUT it is very easy for me to predict LOW VOTER TURNOUT because we have been through at least two generations of no ongoing voter education we used to have in our churches, community organizations and public schools and for over 20 years our people have been indirectly encouraged NOT to vote because all campaigns and supporters spend the majority of their time and money letting the public know that basically no candidate in the end is worth voting for. Far too many people now base their vote totally on their personality likes of the candidates which by election day the masses could care less about none, so these elections today are based SOLELY on seriously organized established political organizations structures and its membership and the masses are left to media ads and literature the week before in the mail. You can never expect a major turnout when there is no longer the kind of "hands on" grassroots investment from many years past.
And of course during Presidential elections for that is probably the only time that local and national political parties invest in the grassroots field operation versus making the field operations just a higher media budget. As a veteran voter education activist of over 40 years, I NEVER thought I'd see the day when trying to get people to vote would be this hard, but its not something that we should not expect from voters who are not invested in year round but only during the final stages of the election process.
marksallen2800@aol.com
Chairman & COO National Black Wall Street Chicago
(Rev. Willie T. Barrow Consumer Education and Consumer Action Project)
Founder/Lead Organizer, Illinois Voter Restoration Civic Education Project
Chief of Staff to National Chairman, National Black Wall Street USA
"And The Ordinary People Said" News Blog, www.chicagonow.com
Chairman, Community Reinvestment Organizing Project
Listed in 2012 Edition Who' Who In Black Chicago
4655 South King Drive, Suite 203
Chicago, Illinois 60653
(Office) 773-268-6900 or direct 773-392-0165
The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "one of Chicago's legendary political activists and one of the best organizers of his generation"
Chairman & COO National Black Wall Street Chicago
(Rev. Willie T. Barrow Consumer Education and Consumer Action Project)
Founder/Lead Organizer, Illinois Voter Restoration Civic Education Project
Chief of Staff to National Chairman, National Black Wall Street USA
"And The Ordinary People Said" News Blog, www.chicagonow.com
Chairman, Community Reinvestment Organizing Project
Listed in 2012 Edition Who' Who In Black Chicago
4655 South King Drive, Suite 203
Chicago, Illinois 60653
(Office) 773-268-6900 or direct 773-392-0165
The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "one of Chicago's legendary political activists and one of the best organizers of his generation"
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