Campaign Delivers the Vote--Literally
It took transportation but not much persuasion to get 87-year-old Samuel Amlin to the polls.
Efrem Harris, a first-time volunteer for Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, drove 60 miles roundtrip from downtown Atlanta to make sure Amlin got to cast a ballot in the presidential primary. The effort was typical of Clinton’s organization in Georgia.
Other campaigns relied on more modest means to get out the vote. All were staffing telephones. Sound trucks and old-fashioned sign-waving were among the other methods used.
Reid Warren of Sen. Bob Kerrey’s campaign said: “We’re mainly going to be doing visibility at heavily traveled sites”--in other words, volunteers would hold up signs.
Amlin, leaning on a cane, predicted that the White House will be voted to Democratic hands this year.
“I feel it in my bones, what’s left of them,” he said with a smile.
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