More on the 2004 Election

Last week Don Carrington traveled to Watauga County and met with a group of citizens to discuss the influence of Appalachian State University students who vote in local elections. Some citizens believe that last year’s university-sponsored voter registration drive and get-out-the-vote effort was responsible for the county commission change from a Republican majority to a Democrat majority. Carrington plans to include his finding in a future Carolina Journal story. Meantime, the issue of a military draft, which Democrats tried to use as an issue in the presidential election and which became a source of Locker Room postings by Roy Cordato, is getting attention from the National Center for Policy Analysis. This week the group’s web site included Cordato’s research on the draft, which showed that of the six times the policy was instituted during the 20th century, all six were during Democratic administrations.