If all the Democrats got off their butts and voted, the pukes would not have a chance in hell

[BigBearJohn]

We need to figure out how to get out the vote before it is too late.

[kimbutgar]

1. But will the votes be counted correctly?

[BigBearJohn]

3. When overwhelming numbers approach the voting booths

It can't be hidden (I hope)

[Hortensis]

4. We'll have the overwhelming numbers, too, IF

they go vote.

Reminds me of a Georgia farmer in his 90s. I asked him how on earth, back before insecticides and other chemicals, his parents managed to raise 10 children out of a garden besieged by all the insects, molds, mildews, critters that come with soupy-hot Georgia summers. He told me they just had to "plant enough for them and us."

We do have "enough," and hopefully the right is planting and growing the realization that just sitting back and vegging isn't working for them.

[BigBearJohn]

5. God, I love that! Thanks for posting that!!

[brooklynite]

9. Care to point to a candidate who thinks their votes weren't counted correctly?

Or is it only bloggers whose opinion counts?

[RKP5637]

2. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[world wide wally]

6. Getting out our vote is the magic bullet

[BigBearJohn]

7. If there EVER was a time we needed to join hands & GOTV this is it

C'mon people. Put on the old thinking hat.

[BigBearJohn]

8. If each of us brought 5 people to the polls & invited the group to dinner afterwards

to celebrate life

[Thinkingabout]

10. Yes, we can do a much better job than republicans.

[Awsi Dooger]

11. We need more people to identify as liberals

That's the important variable, because it attaches to preference, and preference dictates political outcomes.

Enthusiasm is important, so you have to emphasize Get Out The Vote. But it doesn't threaten to match the significance of preference.

The good news is that the number has been ticking upward, including to 26% in the national exit poll. It was 21% when I started charting this. I have no idea why we don't run a national campaign devoted to bumping the number. This would be a great time to define liberalism properly and positively.

In terms of getting out the vote, the major problem is that single women do not turn out in midterms, not to their presidential year dependability and especially in swing states. Instead of women being 53 or 54% of the electorate like in presidential years it drops down to 51%, which limits our upside in favorable years and makes us extremely vulnerable to being swamped when the tide is the other way, like 2010 and 2014.

[BigBearJohn]

12. Campaigns directed at women by powerful women might help.