Reno – Democrats like to say that demographics — i.e., a booming Latino population — is going to push President Obama over the line in Nevada, where the RealClearPolitics.com average has him up by 3 points, even after Mitt Romney’s recent surge.
Demographics help, but demos don’t mean anything without ground troops. And as we told you in our story about swing state Nevada, Nevada’s union members — strong in Vegas, less so in Reno — have spent weeks going door-to-door and leafletting workplaces in support of Obama.
Over the past 18 months, the AFL-CIO has registered 450,000 new voters nationwide, including 10,000 in Nevada.
Spent some time canvassing door-to-door in some of Reno’s working class neighborhoods with Mickey Grizzle and Randy Groves, union letter-carriers. That was after we got kicked out of the energy company plant where they were leafletting — private property and all.
Here, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com’s Shaky Hand Productions video crew, are Mickey and Randy talking about how union canvassing has changed in Nevada: