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In reply to the discussion: This is, more or less, what we're up against: [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)110. Question ...
Which do you believe is the more compelling call to action (i.e., voting):
They're afraid their guns are going to be taken away.
They're afraid the socialists are taking over.
They're afraid their marriages are going to be ruined.
They're afraid of everything they're being told to be afraid of and they come out to vote to stop what they fear.
They're afraid the socialists are taking over.
They're afraid their marriages are going to be ruined.
They're afraid of everything they're being told to be afraid of and they come out to vote to stop what they fear.
Or,
Job Creation
Infrastructure substantially increases infrastructure investment to the level the American Society of Civil Engineers says is necessary to close our infrastructure needs gap
Education funds school modernizations and rehiring laid-off teachers
Aid to States closes the recession-caused gap in state budgets for two years, allowing the rehiring of cops, firefighters, and other public employees
Making Work Pay boosts consumer demand by reinstating an expanded tax credit for three years
Emergency Unemployment Compensation allows beneficiaries to claim up to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits in high-unemployment states for two years
Public Works Job Programs and Aid to Distressed Communities includes job programs such as a Park Improvement Corps, Student Jobs Corps, and Child Care Corps
Fair Individual Tax
Immediately allows Bush tax cuts to expire for families earning over $250K
Higher tax rates for millionaires and billionaires (from 45% to 49%)
Taxes income from investments the same as income from wages
Fair Corporate Tax
Ends corporate tax bias toward moving jobs and profits overseas
Enacts a financial transactions tax
Reduces deductions for corporate jets, meals, and entertainment
Defense
Returns Pentagon spending to 2006 levels, focusing on modern security needs
Health Care
No benefit cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security
Reduces health care costs by adopting a public option, negotiating drug prices, and reducing fraud
Environment
Prices carbon pollution with a rebate to hold low income households harmless
Eliminates corporate tax subsidies for oil, gas, and coal companies GETTING AMERICANS BACK TO WORK
Infrastructure substantially increases infrastructure investment to the level the American Society of Civil Engineers says is necessary to close our infrastructure needs gap
Education funds school modernizations and rehiring laid-off teachers
Aid to States closes the recession-caused gap in state budgets for two years, allowing the rehiring of cops, firefighters, and other public employees
Making Work Pay boosts consumer demand by reinstating an expanded tax credit for three years
Emergency Unemployment Compensation allows beneficiaries to claim up to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits in high-unemployment states for two years
Public Works Job Programs and Aid to Distressed Communities includes job programs such as a Park Improvement Corps, Student Jobs Corps, and Child Care Corps
Fair Individual Tax
Immediately allows Bush tax cuts to expire for families earning over $250K
Higher tax rates for millionaires and billionaires (from 45% to 49%)
Taxes income from investments the same as income from wages
Fair Corporate Tax
Ends corporate tax bias toward moving jobs and profits overseas
Enacts a financial transactions tax
Reduces deductions for corporate jets, meals, and entertainment
Defense
Returns Pentagon spending to 2006 levels, focusing on modern security needs
Health Care
No benefit cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security
Reduces health care costs by adopting a public option, negotiating drug prices, and reducing fraud
Environment
Prices carbon pollution with a rebate to hold low income households harmless
Eliminates corporate tax subsidies for oil, gas, and coal companies GETTING AMERICANS BACK TO WORK
One creates an emotional excited voter ... the other creates a wishful maybe voter.
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24%-so if you convince a small fraction of Democratic voters to come out and vote for a progressive
Chathamization
Mar 2014
#71
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS is the issue that propelled Wendy Davis into the white-hot
bullwinkle428
Mar 2014
#96
And I was talking about your list, which sounds like Al Gore or John Kerry talking
Lydia Leftcoast
Mar 2014
#129
Yes, I worked on the local Kucinich campaign in 2004, and when the time came to GOTV for Kerry
Lydia Leftcoast
Mar 2014
#120
My experience is similar but w/o the cold. It's always the left that shows up
rhett o rick
Mar 2014
#123
it doesn't help that Obama will not be on the Ballot this time around as he is the reason
JI7
Mar 2014
#16
DEMS stay home cuz they've been stabbed in the back too many times by the people they sent to DC.
blkmusclmachine
Mar 2014
#18
My theory is that the GOP voter is easily riled and that's what the think tanks know.
SleeplessinSoCal
Mar 2014
#28
it's easy when it's the other party that has the white house, in this case a black Pres
JI7
Mar 2014
#29
Not on the West Coast. Voting is easy here, not a single line in the State, no 'challenge' to
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2014
#54
Low turn out is a regional issue that could be solved, but it is easier to whine than make
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2014
#55
I'm so tired of this BS. If the Dems would push popular policy positions, we'd win hands down.
grahamhgreen
Mar 2014
#81
I mostly agree... However there is a segment of the US that doesn't vote
SomethingFishy
Mar 2014
#85
It is way easier to whine about voter apathy than actually do anything to earn votes.
TheKentuckian
Mar 2014
#91
You're right. The popular kids are the ones who give their freinds value, not the ones who try to
grahamhgreen
Mar 2014
#97
Well part of the reason is that R's fire up their base while Dems neglect theirs.
cui bono
Mar 2014
#105