Different way to vote for Obama
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- October
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  Barack Obama supporters who feel frustrated that their votes won’t count for much next Tuesday because New York is a lock the the Democrat have been given an option to make them feel better about it: voting for him on a minor-party line.
Voting for the Illinois senator on the Working Families Party line will “send a clear message: be bold,’’ the party said in a release today.
The union-backed party, which has endorsed Obama for president, is on Row E on the ballot, after the Democratic, Republican, Independence and Conservative parties. New York is one of the few states that allow candidates to appear on more than one line on the same ballot.
The party has pushed for universal health care, a raise in the minimum wage, more help for holder of sub-prime mortgages and ending the war in Iraq, among other issues.
The rationale is the more votes Obama gets on the party line, the more pressure he will feel to adopt their agenda.
“They will only be as bold as we can make them,’’ the party said in a statement.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
