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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Exhaustive (and exhausting) list of obstacles to Democratic victory in 2014. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)4. 10. Candidates who can't enthuse enough voters to vote for them.
Recent polling has shown less than a quarter of the youth vote intends to vote in the midterms.
Given that the youth vote is usually sewn up by Dems, you'd think more candidates would be putting a lot more effort into showing that they're worth voting for, and get young adults interested in voting.
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Exhaustive (and exhausting) list of obstacles to Democratic victory in 2014. [View all]
True Blue Door
Jul 2014
OP
Again, the only person talking about "American Idol" campaigns is you, and the implication
winter is coming
Jul 2014
#17
Informing potential voters about how policy affects them isn't "pandering".
winter is coming
Jul 2014
#31
You fail to show citizens' direct influence on the existence of the OP obstacles.
ancianita
Jul 2014
#22
Then you naively play semantics, substituting "excuses" for reality. Of course they're important.
ancianita
Jul 2014
#29
#'s 8 and 9 especially problematic. You know those 5 lying liar psychopaths on the SCOTUS won't
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2014
#14
So you admit that near & distant money does overturn citizen activism, I take it.
ancianita
Jul 2014
#23
My continuation of my points made above (#22).'Eh?' sounds a bit disengenuous, considering your big
ancianita
Jul 2014
#25