then there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. make your voice heard. vote. i m barack obama and i approved this message. most of you should not look for that ad. the ad stressing the importance of voting will of course appear in only the eight states that could actually affect the outcome of the election of the ohio, colorado, nevada, new hampshire, virginia, wisconsin and of course florida. joining me now is sam stein. stam, the obama campaign is fearing any kind of no-show voter or third-party voter in any of these battleground states. it really is the get out of vote time for them, isn t it? yeah. they re worried about come place
perhaps the we try harder approach, the harry truman approach might win for him. let s watch this ad. 537, the number of votes that changed the course of american history. florida is too close to call. the difference between what was and what could have been. so this year, if you re thinking that your vote doesn t count, that it won t matter, well, back then there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. make your voice heard. vote. that s my religion, that s what i really believe, every vote counts. i believe it. i tell my kids this. and it usually comes down to a choice between two candidates. you play games voting for the third party candidate. it s two people. this is about mobilizing people. in my neighborhood n my community i know people who are doing less and less excited than they were four years ago, not door knocking, not going to swing states the way they did
from obama, another one, this is about getting people out to vote, it s the underdog ad which is the flipside of the bragging ad on their side, bragging point of view, trying to push out to the mainstream press and here is obama playing it differently perhaps the we try harder approach, the harry truman approach might win for him. let s watch this ad. 537, the number of votes that changed the course of american history. florida is too close to call. the difference between what was and what could have been. so this year, if you re thinking that your vote doesn t count, that it won t matter, well, back then there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. make your voice heard. vote. that s my religion, that s what i really believe, every vote counts. i believe it. i tell my kids this. and it usually comes down to a choice between two candidates. you play games voting for the third party candidate. it s two people. this is about mobilizing people. in my neighborho
to vote in both florida and new york city. lots of snow birds. between 700 and 1,000 of them had also voted in both states. now the problem with that is in florida, in 2000, we decided the entire presidential election by only 537 votes. so even if it s not a large problem. if the election is close enough, it can swing the whole thing. so, john, i mean no national data base that checks off no. whether or not somebody who has voted in ohio is also voting in florida or voted in new york is also voting in florida. voters kindly take your name and kindly usher you into the booth. how you can ever combat this problem? well, about 20 states are informally exchanging information network. we need to get more states involved in this because this network did uncover very interesting example last month. a democratic national candidate in maryland. the no, ma am he knee of her party had been caught voting
insiders are paying attention to. in ohio, the secretary of state, he sent them to everyone. the absentee ballots tend to usually favor republicans. that s part of it too. the democrats do better in the early voting because democrats are more likely to go to the polling places. it s going to be interesting to see what happens after this election with regards to restrictions on early voting, whether in person or by mail, restrictions on voter i.d. it s going to be interesting to see what happens over the next what do you think will happen? i m not sure. i think that after the election right. i think if this is a really close election and we see there s some sort of result that dpends on the turnout in one state or another with earl vi voting, i think people will look at election fraud and issues of election reform. if you look at what we did in 2000, we had an election decided by 537 votes in florida. we had hanging chads. it didn t cause any change in