Getting Out the Vote

The rehab center where I work in Reading is across the street from a large public housing neighborhood. Reading has one of the largest concentrations of hispanic residents in the country. All day long there have been vans driving up and down the streets with loud speakers telling people in spanish that they can have a ride to the polling location in order to vote. They are also encouraging everyone to vote for Ed Rendel, Lois Murphy and other democrats. I think this is smart, because hispanic voters tend to be conservative voters based on the anti-abortion perspective. In some cases, maybe democrats are learning how to win uncommitted voters.