Obama’s Latino Outreach Director, Temo Figueora on tomorrow’s speech:
You’re going to be hearing tomorrow from Barack Obama the kick-off of the largest voter registration drive ever in a presidential campaign…he’s going to mention some numbers that we’re going to be spending on voter registration through the month of September that will be mind boggling.
Tinker with turnout models using our interactive spreadsheet, where you can adjust youth and African-American participation in eighteen battleground states. One scenario:
Scenario 2 – 20% Increase Among Blacks and Youth: Shade both Florida and Nevada blue, providing an additional thirty-two electoral votes that boost Obama’s total to 316. Colorado, Virginia, and Missouri – thirty-three electoral votes combined – narrow to within two percent.
