Excitement over the presidential race is expected to boost voter turn out tomorrow to well above the 75% turn-out four years ago. But though most people know exactly who they’ll vote for as president, the focus on national politics has left many voters uninformed about the races closer to home.
KPBS reporter Alison St John, has more.
More than 120 thousand San Diego County residents have signed up to vote since June, many of them motivated by a year of dynamic presidential campaigns. But Matt Rezovitch, who’s lived in the city of San Diego for 10 years, says he’s only just beginning to consider how to vote on the San Diego propositions and races.
Rezovitch : Hopefully I’ll get my research done by the time I get to the polls, because otherwise if I don’t know about it , I’m not going to vote on it.
Rezovitch says if he had been able to afford to buy a house here, he might have been more invested in the outcome of local races .
Frank Bosselatti is a home owner and a business owner in San Diego, but he also has little interest in the local races .
Bosselatte : Nah, I’m more interested in the presidential election, I’ve not watched anything, no debates anything in the city…I know a little bit about it , but I haven't paid no attention to what they're going to do or not going to do.
Campaigners and lobbyists like Lorena Gonzalez of the Labor Council say it’s been a challenge for the San Diego and state wide campaigns.
Gonzalez : Low propensity voters…that’s what we call them, they’re presidential voters. They wait until the last few days to try to figure out where they’re going to put their votes down ticket ,and I think that make it a little tougher for us.
Campaigns of all political stripes have had to compete with the all -pervasive coverage of the presidential race to get any attention.
Alison St John, KPBS news.
