Try to tell a bunch of Natives they can't do something & look what happens...

[kpete]

Try to tell a bunch of Natives they can’t do something & look what happens...early voting on the Standing Rock Rez is UP OVER 400%!!

Link to tweet

[raging moderate]

1. Righteous.

[Doreen]

29. Just got up and you gave me my first hard laugh of the day.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

33. Can we all just stop with the cultural stereotypes?

This doesn't need to read like a 1950s Disney movie.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

42. Why don't you just come right out and call me a "snowflake" FFS.

Do you not realize that the "peace pipe" thing is a horrible stereotype that you might not want to use? I mean, you can't really be that obtuse.

I have no "tender sensibility." I just don't fucking like racism. Sorry for that.

[pangaia]

43. Do you have any idea how ignorant and insulting that statement is?

I can not imagine anyone here saying something like that.

[Onward AND Upward]

45. Native American Group Fourdirections is Working F&F to GOTV- Also in Arizona- **Donation links Here:

They have been (since Oct 9th), working to get out the Native American vote in North Dakota. Knocking on doors, driving people to the polls, making ID's, sometimes on the spot at the polling place & feeding voluteers. They came up with the idea to circumvent the voter supression law that requires residential addresses. They are helping to GOTV in Nevada, North Dakota, Apache, Coconino and Navajo, Counties in Arizona, and San Juan County, Utah. Any money left over they will use for court battles and to GOTV in 2020. Donation links are:

https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/388864/take-back-the-senate-in-2018-by-getting-native-americans-to-the-polls?ref_code=carousel&source_code=fourdirections

Or if you want to include a short inspiration or thank-you note, use their website Paypal link:

http://www.fourdirectionsvote.com/donation

Thread with more details:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211360747#post28

[2naSalit]

2. That's right!

They are woke like woke ain't never seen in a century.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Talk about beating the war drums!! Way to go!!!!! nt

[Cuthbert Allgood]

17. Yikes. Might want to rethink comments like that.

Plus, the Lakota and Dakota were not warring tribes even if you are going to try defend the comment.

[pangaia]

25. yeah, tell me.. and that comment about a peace pipe.

wow..

[Cuthbert Allgood]

34. Yup. Would hope DU would be better than that.

[SWBTATTReg]

35. Get over it. I wasn't preaching violence or the like, just that they were churning up the voters...

in a positive way.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

36. Using racist stereotypes.

And inaccurate ones, given the tribe in question.

But, hey, you do you, I guess.

[SWBTATTReg]

37. So says you. What about your interpretation of my innoculous remarks and turning it into a

'stereotype', and making sound like a racist remark? Yes, I'll do me and you stick to yours.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

39. "Beating the war drum" when talking about Indigenous Peoples. Yeah, I'll stick with it being racist

Way to dig in, though, rather than taking a moment to realize why it is racist.

[zentrum]

46. Unless you are Native American

...yourself, you really don't get to decide what is and what is not racist, stereotyping or offensive about that characterization.

No matter how "positive" you "feel".

[pangaia]

44. Wow. That is just as ignorant and insulting as the other poster's comment about a 'peacepipe.'

Not something I would expect to see here...

[oasis]

4. Fabulous. Standing Rock voters make a statement!

[brewens]

5. I hope that has fired them up all over the nation. The main town on our local reservation

has regular street addresses. So do all of the other smaller towns I think, even though they don't get home mail delivery anymore. So they couldn't pull that crap with the addresses around here.

[irisblue]

6. Good.

[dlk]

7. Their Voices Count-Glad They're Taking Action

[grantcart]

8. Same thing happens with AA or any other group

[Drahthaardogs]

10. It's like 4%

Not to be a downer, but ....

[lunatica]

12. Well you may not want to be but yeah, you're a downer

4% of what? The graph says over 400%.

[Drahthaardogs]

14. The graph says it went from 1% to 4%

It does not say what the percentage relates to.

[lunatica]

15. It's still a 400% increase in turnout.

[Drahthaardogs]

16. Yes, but that's how folks use statistics to create a narrative

If there were 100 people who were eligible voters and last time 1% or 1 person voted early, this time 4 did, it's a 400% increase, bit still just 4 people.

[lunatica]

18. You see glass half empty

But the glass is also half full. There’s a universe of difference in attitude there. So you’re at least honest about bringing others down.

[Drahthaardogs]

20. I've been here too long. I remember the joy when exit polls

Said Kerry beat Bush. I remember too well 2016. Ive been here 15 years under one name or another. I HOPE Heidi wins, but I'm going to be realistic too. I'm not celebrating until it's official.

[lunatica]

21. It looks like you think optimism and hopefulness are weaknesses

I’m willing to bet I’m every bit as realistic as you are. I’ve been around for quite a while too.

[Drahthaardogs]

23. I'm cautiously optimistic

And when I see buggered statistics I am going to point it out. I am a scientist and use stats everyday.

[lunatica]

24. I believe you

[JohnnyRingo]

22. I saw that as well.

A 400% increase may only be the difference between 50 early votes two years ago to 200 this year. Assuming the chart only includes Standing rock, that may well be possible. It doesn't say.

My youngest granddaughter began voting this year, so total grandchildren voting in my family is up a whopping 20%. It's our Blue Wave.

[LanternWaste]

26. But what?

"Not to be a downer, but ...."

Independent clauses are critical to communication... regardless of whether communication is to you.

[Drahthaardogs]

32. But without knowing what the y-axis is a percentage of,

It could be inconsequential.


Better?

[George II]

27. The left scale is based on a normalized "1" - meaning everyone who voted in 2014.

If 100,000 people voted in 2014, that's "1". So this year the number of people voting would be 414,000.

If it was 10,000 in 2014, it's 41,400 this year, etc.

Simply stated - FOUR TIMES the number of people who voted in 2014 turned out to vote in 2018.

[CrispyQ]

31. We'll take it!

Heidi Heitkamp won her seat in 2012 by 1% point.

EVERY VOTE MATTERS

[yardwork]

11. I'm glad to see this but it's also sad to be reminded of the apathy in 2016.

Our election in 2016 was sabotaged by outsiders intent on destroying our democracy. Too many people were too easily persuaded to vote against their interests - or not vote at all - and as a result we have Trump, a Republican Congress, and the destruction of our judicial branch.

I hope that we can begin to turn things around today but to be honest, lifelong damage has already been inflicted and will continue to occur.

Reminders of 2016 make me angry.

[lunatica]

13. Hillary had 3 million more votes than Trump

Just a reminder that the people’s overwhelming choice was ignored by an ossified electoral college.

[FakeNoose]

19. Not sure what this means

Are they saying that they have 4 times as many voters this year, compared to 2016?
Or is it the same number of voters overall, but 4x more are early voting?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. We don't have the raw numbers,

and while early voting being up is nice, if there are no new voters in the end, it may not matter.

[sagetea]

30. Wavoka's promise

of the Ghost Dance. Also, there are comments about a Peace Pipe and war drums, I hope those individuals read up on what a peace pipe truly is and understand the meaning of war drums.


Ho`
sage

[Hortensis]

38. Fabulous! But I credit their own leaders for this.

Ordinary people have a powerful history of just accepting when told they can't. Someone or some people here made something very good happen. State legislature in 2 years?

[herding cats]

40. It still depends on turnout today.

ND is a weird one. Their never voted tally in EV was down by almost 80% from 2014. Some of that may have been due to the voter ID matter, and some may be apathy.

EV modeled Dem - 12,490

EV modeled Rep - 67,840

EV modeled Unclear - 19,946

However, nailing party affiliation in ND and predictions on how a person will vote are often off.

The good news is I heard the turnout of the Natives is good and their paper ID's are being accepted! Keep hoping, and if you're there drive people to the polls, make calls to remind people to vote and help GOTV!

[debsy]

47. WE LOVE YOU, STANDING ROCK!

[Honeycombe8]

48. I hope they had time to get their IDs & addresses in order, so all the votes will be counted!

The Native Americans were targeted...and they showed what they think of THAT! Maybe the suppression backfired.