I can't see where discussions about the 2016 campaign affect turnout
...all the talk about 'Dems infighting' hurting chances in upcoming elections sounds just as contrived and overblown as any of the party controversies arising in the past month.
Having failed attracting enough attention to their hyping of campaign minutia, the media is trying to represent our voters as myopic backbiters still fighting the last presidential primary, unable to distinguish our own daily struggles from the politics they're exploiting.
On the issues which concern and compel us to participate in the political system, Democrats are united. There is no debate within our party about defending the gains made under Pres. Obama from the determined, craven republican assault on our democracy and on the protections Americans expect from their government.
Voters haven't lost sight of the clear and present danger of Trump, just because there's a tiff over a passage in a book. It's nonsense to even imagine there's to be some blowback at the polls because of fundraising agreements in a defunct primary. But that's the narrative the media have fallen back on, hoping it's their word to voter's ears in the upcoming contests.
Most politics is local, but republicans are still united behind this destructive and dangerous presidency. That's a clear target for our Democratic opposition. Fear and anger at that state of affairs is what's going to be foremost in voters' minds when they go to the polls, not manufactured pique over some disavowed memo at the DNC.
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