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Parties Push Voters To The Polls; It's All Depends On Turnout; Dems, GOP, "outsiders' go all-out in GOTV effort; will new voters show up?(A)
Byline: SEAN HIGGINS
Progressive activist Dennis Jay has been working hard knocking on doors and talking to voters. Just not in Annapolis, Md., where he resides.
Jay and hundreds of others from his town have been taking regular day trips in battleground states like West Virginia.
Further south, Republican organizer James Parmelee does the same, sending bus loads of Virginians into Pennsylvania, or wherever the Republican National Committee says they're needed.
Jay and Parmelee are just two of thousands of activists hitting the streets in swing states. Their long-distance activism highlights the lengths to which both sides are pushing their "get out the vote" efforts in this election.
The major parties are being bolstered by outside groups mounting their own well-funded, labor-intensive turnout efforts. The result is a political arms race to build the better grass-roots machine.
Democrats have historically had the better organization. But Republicans caught them napping in 2002, perhaps tipping the scales in several close Senate races.
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