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Barker, 22, moved from Sacramen to, Calif., to Oregon to help with the project and said the differences in campaign strategies between the two states were evident immediately, which he said is troubling in the long run but inspiring in the short run. “It can mean something different when your local TV news station has an interview with a candidate. That tends to be pretty compelling. ” Joel Bloom | University professor “For this campaign, the young peo ple can make a difference because this is a swing state,” Barker said. “Young people can actually step up and swing the state.” Because campaign efforts are con centrated only in swing states, Bloom said most political talk in non-swing states is limited to what appears on the national scale. While swing states are saturated with localized cam paigns designed specifically for that state, Bloom said national television news programs and late-night and early-morning talk show gossip can be other states’ only exposure to dif ferent campaigns. “All they’re getting in the other states is a sort of national punditry,” Bloom said. Paige Richardson, director for the Kerry campaign in Oregon, said the lack of a distinct political party divi sion is what distinguishes swing states from non-swing states. “When we’re sitting here putting together a campaign plan, the things we have on it are raising money so that we can have television and radio and cover the administrative efforts of a field effort that will then go out and make person-to-person contact CHINA BLUE Restaurant 879 E. 13th 343-2832 Lunch Special $4' This week: Manderian Chicken with egg flower soup, steamed rice and lemon iced tea. Try our dinners too! vegetarian options M-F: nam-9:30pm • Sat: 4pm- 9:30pm Sun: 12-9:30 pm on the phone and at the door,” Richardson said. Person-to-person contact is heavi ly pushed in the swing states, Bloom said, because of how effective it can be in reaching out to voters who are still undecided and swinging support from one candidate to another. This has resulted in candidates dedicating the majority of their cam paign stops to swing states. Oregon played host to campaign visits from both President Bush and Sen. Kerry in August and party officials have not ruled out the possibility of more visits before voting day on Nov. 2. Bloom said these visits are very beneficial to a candidate’s cam paign, particularly because of the at tention the local media give them. “It can mean something different when your local TV news station has an interview with a candidate,” he said. “That tends to be pretty compelling.” Both Bloom and Richardson said an increase in campaign visits in swing states is accompanied by a heavier get-out-the-vote effort, an increase in campaign spending and a greater number of political ads on television and radio. According to a Sept. 25 Register Guard article, the two candidates, along with a barrage of political in terest groups, have purchased about 13,000 30-second advertisements on the four biggest television stations in the Eugene area in the last seven months alone. This number is un doubtedly higher than in non-swing states like California, as Woodhouse and Barker have attested to. If support continues to swing between Kerry and Bush in Oregon, Bloom said the political climate will continue to be saturated with campaign ads as interest groups and political parties will continue to pump money into state-wide can vassing efforts. Also, candidates will continue to tailor their message to local issues and the state will continue to see tremendous voter registration efforts. Those efforts are extremely neces sary for each campaign because, as Woodhouse said, “every vote counts, but in some sense, the swing-state votes count more.” meghanncimiff@ daily emerald, com 02Q249 Resale Clothing est. 1976 New Line of Evening Dresses (70% off new store prices) Perfect for Homecoming We Buy/Consign Call for appt. 344-7039 360 E. 11th between Mill &. High Got a story idea? Give us a call. 346.5511.
