It should be particularly effective with low-income and elderly voters.
They would provide tangible aid to elderly voters before the 2004 elections.
Republican officials scoff at the Kerry campaign's talk of big gains among elderly voters.
The shift back to a command economy was popular with the rural and elderly voters accustomed to the Soviet ways.
The new Dole commercial is also running in Arizona, which has many elderly voters as well.
"Before I leave, do vote," she said, exhorting elderly voters to turn out.
Florida, where he made the announcement, is full of elderly voters nervous about what health-care reforms mean for them.
But once it became public, intense lobbying from groups of elderly voters began.
Shhh, Drake, don't tell the elderly voters you haven't really done anything yet.
More affecting were the elderly and infirm black voters standing in long lines under a hot sun or being helped to the voting table.