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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongrats to our UK & French friends for stepping up in important elections.
Wish we could've done the same back in November.
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Congrats to our UK & French friends for stepping up in important elections. (Original Post)
Drunken Irishman
Jun 2017
OP
I read upward to 70%. If we got 70% youth turnout, the GOP would never win again.
Drunken Irishman
Jun 2017
#2
45 has already helped lose two big elections. This is a good sign for 2018 ...
eppur_se_muova
Jun 2017
#5
Stallion
(6,474 posts)1. Apparently The Biggest Youth Turnout in Decades
I think they said a majority of youth vote turned out for first time in like 25 years
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)2. I read upward to 70%. If we got 70% youth turnout, the GOP would never win again.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)12. Our youth won't put down their phones long enough to vote.
We have millenials who just can't be bothered.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)3. It's likely that the fightback is as a result of the November
Election. At least there is that positive.
sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)4. And the Dutch
I was hearing talk of Geert Wilders taking the election at one point and he crashed hardest of all.
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)5. 45 has already helped lose two big elections. This is a good sign for 2018 ...
... not to mention 2020.
He's the ultimate rejoinder to "Let's try someone who's not a professional politician. How could things possibly be worse?".
Hamlette
(15,411 posts)6. I wish Trump could see that both elections are a repudiation of him.
but he is incapable of any insight or honesty.
Cha
(297,188 posts)7. Especially when he's got Fakefox telling
"Comey exonerates Trump - so much for obstruction"
At the bottom left of the Fox screen grab
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029180357#post9
At the bottom left of the Fox screen grab
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029180357#post9
malaise
(268,967 posts)8. Two words
paper ballots
diva77
(7,640 posts)10. Actually 4 words: Paper ballots, hand counted!!
details, details!!
Agreed
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)13. Precisely.