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struggle4progress

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17. "low turnout" means "botched ground game" -- the wackos got their gun-nuts to the polls,

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 01:39 AM

Sep 2013

but the other side didn't

people often think politics is about policy but IT'S REALLY ABOUT ORGANIZATION -- and since money can buy some organization, money wins if all else is equal

but ALL ELSE NEED NOT BE EQUAL

PEOPLE POWER CAN BEAT MONEY WHEN PEOPLE ARE MOTIVATED

it's simply a matter of learning how to talk about the issues and then doing the outreach -- the tabling, the leaf-letting, the phone-dialing, the door-knocking

if you really want to win, you don't sit on your hands

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Only Good Guys With Data Can Stop the Gun Lobby [View all] onehandle Sep 2013 OP

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stop saying pro-gun Skittles Sep 2013 #3

Somewhere on the Internets, that form of porn exists. onehandle Sep 2013 #6

have you noticed all the new humpers on DU after every mass killing? Skittles Sep 2013 #9

Yeah. New. Brand new humpers. onehandle Sep 2013 #10

well yes, they could be the same assholes logging in under different names Skittles Sep 2013 #14

Stop saying gun humping rl6214 Sep 2013 #15

I'll take juvenile and idiotic over ignorant and paranoid Skittles Sep 2013 #16

I'd say you probably take all of the above rl6214 Sep 2013 #18

you're wrong Skittles Sep 2013 #19

probably true. that's why we get these pro-gun poster boys every now and then like in DC nt msongs Sep 2013 #5

they make me SICK Skittles Sep 2013 #20

Good Guys With Data and 1% of the money of the NRA will never stop the NRA. nt madinmaryland Sep 2013 #2

The tide will turn. onehandle Sep 2013 #4

It will be a long battle. One that I will not see to the end. madinmaryland Sep 2013 #8

That polling means squat in elections LittleBlue Sep 2013 #7

What's "gun culture"? nt Llewlladdwr Sep 2013 #11

Incest, double-wides, and banjo playing mwrguy Sep 2013 #12

What do any of those things have to do with guns? Llewlladdwr Sep 2013 #13

LOVE the ones who just cannot figure out what a "gun culture" is Skittles Sep 2013 #21

"low turnout" means "botched ground game" -- the wackos got their gun-nuts to the polls, struggle4progress Sep 2013 #17