Big shout out to independents, conservative Democrats and people who seldom vote!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Part of the reason

but I heard it with my focus group, my nieces. They were extremely let down with policy and expected a turn to the left. When it did not happen.

As to GOTV, you also need to give your voters a reason to go vote. It is not just making calls and all that.

My locals SEEM to have finally figured it out. Have something that the base will come out for every damn election. (General they are trying to get a minimum wage increase for the November ballot)

The right figured out this a generation ago.

Second lesson I am hoping my locals learn before another generation passes, RUN FOR LOCAL OFFICE. The Right figured this out a generation ago. Why they have utter and complete control of boards. City Councils in coastal areas the Dems are starting to dominate, but inland...

And we cover local politics, local races are not really that important to the local party. The Republicans on the other hand... the Lincoln Club knows how critical is that control... we simply don't.

I said in a post earlier, people live this fantasy that change will come from the top, when in reality change will come from local planning groups, school boards, city councils and boards of supers, to mention a few.