Does anyone here really think people bashing the president will vote for the GOP in 2014, 2016?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

32. I think one line in your comment is particularly important

although not, perhaps, in the way you mean it.

"But staying at home is tantamount to casting a vote—for the other side. Because the coming elections are about nothing but turnout. "

Turnout is routinely low in midterms. And turnout is indeed key. So rather than wasting time fighting with people who say they might not turn out, people who want high turnout should instead be keying in on all of those people who turn out for the Presidential races, but not midterms. Don't look to win back the angry or the disillusioned - win over the apathetic.

Last year, iirc, I read several articles that stated how phonebanking became much more effective when the word 'voter' was used, specifically, instead of 'voting', and when callers asked potential voters when they were going to vote, because it made the call recipient specifically think of themselves in terms of being a voter, and got them to specifically envision going out and voting 'before work', 'at lunchtime', etc.