Campaigning

I received this postcard last week.

At first I was a little weirded out because there are right-wing organizations targeting Virginia voters by riling up fears about losing benefits if they don’t vote. (The “losing benefits” part turns out to be if they vote for candidates who want to end programs like SNAP, Medicaid and Social Security—which would be entirely Republican candidates, but that part isn’t mentioned in their materials. The Virginia Attorney General, actually a Republican, has told one group to cut it out.)

But in the end, I decided it was just regular get-out-the-vote outreach, probably from Democrats, since in the Old Dominion you have to state your party preference.

The card may have been left over from last year, but I approve of repurposing and recycling.

And in any event, I received it after I’d already cast my ballot.