Bus Project Wins!
My alma mater of civic engagement, the Bus Project, has registered 12,000 (young) voters in Oregon this year through it’s Building Votes program. That’s about double the margin between Bush-Gore in Oregon in 2000 (i.e. enough to make a difference)!
If you are in Oregon or know anyone who is — get involved and help them on their final push before the registration deadline of Oct 17.
I always knew Jon Stewart was pretty smart, but I had no idea how prescient he was when it comes to GOTV:
[Update: The Bus Project actually surpassed its goal by registering over 16,500 people in Oregon under age 30 (and over 20k total), increasing the size of Oregon’s under-30 electorate by 6%. Wow. I have to admit I had some doubts when lead registerer Anna Galland told me the 15,000 goal last spring (even though I’d already seen her do ridiculously amazing things… this seemed pushing the ridiculously amazingness pretty far). Great job guys.]