APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin visited the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Wednesday to connect to college students.
“They have the most at stake. Young people will be around for the longest, right?” she said.
Baldwin told FOX 11 her goal is to connect with as many people as she can before Election Day and to encourage them to vote.
“This particular race, with the races for president, for U.S. Senate — so tight. We know that this is all about turnout,” she said.
Professor Jerald Podair at Lawrence University says outreach will play a large role in this election in particular, as most voters have already decided which candidate to support.
“This election is really about getting your people, your voters, to vote. It’s a turnout election. So the appearance of a candidate on a college campus, especially now that early voting has begun, makes it even easier in many ways for college students to get out and vote.”
UWO student Isabella Wishnie said college students’ votes matters now more than ever.
“We are the next generation. The stuff that we are voting on, the people that we are voting to put in office, is going to impact our lives as adults. We influence it from the ground up.”
Podair said that thanks to a long standing Supreme Court decision, students can either vote where they live or where they go to school, which means there will be more influence coming from the schools.
“Since the battleground states, the seven big battleground states, are so close, it’s much more likely that the students are going to vote where they go to school.”
Podair added that early voting will also come into play in the run up to Election Day.
“Early voting, I think, really changes the game. Because if you’re a college student and you see Tammy Baldwin and you are really inspired, as of today, you can vote right now.”
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