Trade groups in damage control as GOP nominee Trump tanks in the polls
- August 19, 2016 |
- LORI SHARN BRYANT
Get-out-the-vote efforts stress importance of casting ballots for races other than president; employee registration week Sept. 26-30 With the clock ticking down toward election day, business trade groups are increasingly worried that public antipathy toward the presidential candidates will affect voter turnout for down-ballot races. Associations are fine-tuning and ratcheting up their get-out-the-vote campaigns to take into account the potential blowback. The Business-Industry Political Action Committee—which counts more than 300 companies and national associations as members—is targeting turnout with the theme "every vote counts." Posters intended for workplace bulletin… Read More