NC registered voters: "There's no good choices this time."

Submitted by wayne204 on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 5:50pm.

My wife and I spent the afternoon registering voters outside the WalMart in Morganton. We weren't allowed to wear buttons or show any campaign material, so shoppers didn't know for sure who we supported.

We did ok registering new voters (maybe 30 in 3 hours). But the problem was the unsolicited response we got from way too many registered voters: "There's no good choices this time."

To be fair, I had no idea what their party affiliation was, but my gut feeling was that this was code for "I won't vote for a woman or an African-American."

First question: Are other people getting this kind of reaction?

Second question: Is it widespread?

Third question: If the answers to the first 2 questions are "yes," then what on earth are we going to do about it?

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