good thing this election

is the monumental effort to get people registered to vote and encourage them to do so. The message seems tacked on to everything these days. I think it mainly stems from angry Democrats desperately wanting to see Bush defeated, and seeing their best chance at achieving this by getting historically undervoting groups like young adults. hispanics, etc to the polls. Then the Republicans countered with their own campaign so as not to be seen as anti-democracy. In addition there's the lingering memory of the horrible mess of the 2000 election. Thus giving rise to bumper stickers like "RE-DEFEAT BUSH." The logic being that the more people that vote, the more legitimate the outcome of the election. something like that.