Do You Think Anybody In The Democratic Party Pays Attention To Voters Who Post Online ???

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5. Yes, but they also listen to voters on the ground

Voters who post online may not be fully representative of voters in real life. I know we'd like to think that everyone thinks as we do, but it's not true.

I've done a lot of groundwork in the past, both canvassing door-to-door and with volunteers in campaign offices. I remember back in 2004, coming back from weeks of conversations with voters in lower-middle-class neighborhoods in southern New Hampshire, and then going to some political meeting in my uber-liberal Massachusetts town. That's when it dawned on me that a huge gulf existed between the people who are most intellectually engaged in political discourse and real people in the world. I mean, the people in my town were all in it about the Bush doctrine and such, while the people on whose doorsteps I'd been talking were all about trying to get health insurance for a daughter who had cancer.

We may be more informed about what's going on politically, but we don't represent everyone out there in the Democratic voting universe. I think we have to remember that sometimes.

EDITED to add: Hell, we don't even agree about anything amongst ourselves here. So what are they supposed to take away from listening to us argue?