% THE RULE OF LAW.
% STATE-WIDE RACES COULD HINGE
% ON THREE KEY NATIONAL VOTING
% TRENDS PLAYING OUT IN THE
% MILWAUKEE METRO AREA, WHICH IS
% HOME TO A LITTLE LESS THAN
% HALF OF THE STATE'S VOTERS.
% SCOTTIE LEE MEYERS FROM
% MILWAUKEE PBS BRINGS US THIS
% REPORT.
% >> DEANGELA BESTER, THE%EXEC
UTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE% CENTER FOR R
ACIAL AND GENDER
% EQUITY, IS ONE OF THE LEAD
% ORGANIZERS BEHIND THIS VOTER
% REGISTRATION PARTY AT THE
% SHERMAN PHOENIX MARKETPLACE.%
DEMOCRATS HOPE EVENTS LIKE
% THIS COULD LEAD TO HIGHER
% TURNOUT AMONG BLACK VOTERS, A
% KEY CONSTITUENCY FOR THE
% PARTY.
% >> SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO
% IS JUST, AGAIN, EDUCATE THE
% VOTERS HERE IN MILWAUKEE AND
% EVEN ACROSS THE STATE ABOUT
% MAKING SURE TO REGISTER TO
% VOTE, MAKE SURE THEY HAVE ALL
% THE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO
% REGISTER TO VOTE.
% >> MILWAUKEE'S BLACK VOTER
% TURNOUT WAS DOWN IN 2020.
% STRICTER VOTING LAWS AND THE
% PANDEMIC ARE THE TWO BIG
% REASONS EXPERTS OFTEN CITE FOR%
THE DECLINE.%THAT'S WHY BESTER AN
D HIS TEAM
% ARE KNOCKING ON A LOT OF DOORS
% RIGHT NOW.
% >> WE'RE HOPING TO KNOCK ON
% ABOUT 40,000 DOORS TOTAL IN
% THE STATE BETWEEN, YOU KNOW,
% WHEN WE STARTED IN AROUND JUNE
% THROUGH ELECTION DAY.
% WE WANT TO HAVE AROUND 15,000
% CONVERSATIONS WITH VOTERS.
% AND WE'RE HOPING TO GET, YOU
% KNOW, 70% TURNOUT FOR THE
% PEOPLE THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE%
CONVERSATIONS WITH.
% >> REPUBLICANS HAVE LOOKED TO
% INCREASE THEIR SUPPORT AMONG
% HISPANIC VOTERS WITH A NEW
% INITIATIVE CALLED OPERACI ÓN
% iVAMOS!, WHICH LAUNCHED IN
% SEVERAL KEY SWING STATES
% INCLUDING WISCONSIN.
% LATINO VOTERS HAVE TYPICALLY
% FAVORED DEMOCRATS, BUT NOT
% ALWAYS BY WIDE MARGINS.
% THEY'RE NOT LEAVING IN DROVES
% BUT THERE IS A MEASURABLE%SH
IFT.
% >> I KNOW THAT HISPANIC VOTERS
% HAVE BASICALLY BEEN TAKEN FOR
% GRANTED BY DEMOCRATS.
% >> U.S. SENATOR RICK SCOTT OF
% FLORIDA IS HELPING TO LEAD
% THESE OUTREACH EFFORTS, WHICH
% HAVE SENT CAMPAIGN WORKERS TO
% KNOCK ON DOORS IN
% NEIGHBORHOODS IN MILWAUKEE AND
% THROUGHOUT THE STATE, TRYING
% TO MAKE INROADS WITH
% WISCONSIN'S LARGEST MINORITY
% GROUP.
% >> HISPANIC VOTERS ARE WAY
% MORE INCLINED TO VOTE
% THEY WANT A BETTER ECONOMIC%
MARKET.
% THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE
% INFLATION. THEY WANT TO LIVE
% IN SAFE COMMUNITIES.
% IF WE TALK ABOUT THOSE ISSUES
% THAN WE'RE GOING TO WIN
% ELECTIONS.
% >> DURING OUR INTERVIEW WITH
% DEB DASSOW, THE CHAIR OF THE
% DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF OZAUKEE
% COUNTY, PEOPLE KEPT COMING
% INTO THE OFFICE REQUESTING%YA
RD SIGNS.
% YOU'RE PROBABLY SEEING MORE IN
% THE AREA THAN EVER BEFORE.
% THOUGH STILL RED, OZAUKEE
% COUNTY RECENTLY SAW THE
% BIGGEST INCREASE IN DEMOCRATIC
% VOTERS IN THE STATE.
% WAUKESH COUNTY IS SECOND ON%
THAT SAME LIST. IT'S PART OF
% THE PURPLING OF THE
% SUBURBS.
% I DO GET A SENSE THAT IT'S
% CHANGING. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY
% IT'S NOT A
% INORMOUS SWING. BUT WE ARE%JU
ST PICKING UP A COUPLE% PERCENTAGE P
OINTS EVERY% SINGLE YEAR.%AT T
HE CENTER OF THIS SURBAN
% SWING ARE WOMEN, WHO DASSOW
% SAYS HAVE ENERGIZED THE PARTY
% AFTER THE OVERTURNING OF ROE
% V. WADE.
% >> I HAD A WOMAN STOPPED IN
% RIGHT AFTER THE DOBBS%DECISI
ON.
% SHE CAME
% IN WITH HER TWO LITTLE%CHILDR
EN. SHE HAD ON A "MY% BODY, MY CHO
ICE T-SHIRT ON% AND SHE SAID "
I'VE NEVER VOTED
% FOR A DEMOCRAT BEFORE. I'VE
% ALWAYS BEEN A LIBERTARIAN. %
SHE WAS YOUNG.
% I'D SAY IN HER THIRTIES.
% AND SHE SAID, SHE GOES, "SIGN