Local parties run major ‘ground games’
SUN PHOTOS BY GREG MARTIN
Jim Nolan, chairman of the Charlotte County Democratic Party, picks up a list of voters from the Organizing for America office in Port Charlotte Friday. Nolan is among hundreds of volunteers who knock on doors or call the voters to urge them to vote.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Peg Thompson, a volunteer in Republican Party headquarters in Port Charlotte, holds up a Romney sign Friday. She said she had given out 50 of the signs during her hour-hour shift as part of the GOP's "ground game."
PHOTO PROVIDED BY MARY LUNDEBERG
A willet sandpiper catches a minnow on Englewood Beach near Stump Pass Beach State Park. After an episode of red tide that left only dead fish on the wrack line, the birds are back in business.
With the presidential race in a dead heat and the election a little more than a week away, getting out the vote in such a swing state as Florida may never be more important.
However, the leaders of the Charlotte County Republican and Democratic parties say they pulled out the stops on their local “ground games” months ago, as part of long-standing strategies for victory.
