Democrats post big gains in voter registration (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sat, 09/06/2008 - 11:17am

Linda Graham , right, holds the clipboard as Florence Dziamniski, 82, fills out the voter registration form outside the senior citizen's home in Clairton, Pa.<br /><br />Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. Five days a week, Graham trolls southwest Pennsylvania for unregistered voters, working to add to the big gains Democrats have posted this election cycle.<br /><br />Graham, 45, has taken three months unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank to volunteer with Service Employees International Union.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.



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