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In reply to the discussion: People vote when they have something/someone to vote FOR. [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)134. and it's worse when they internalize it
you never think Battered Voter Syndrome can happen in your own party--until it does
(and it's not like "blame the voters" is a *winning* party's strategy)
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Very few politicians are even willing to say people have been getting royally screwed.
winter is coming
Oct 2014
#69
and voting FOR minimum wage and health care and media, election, and campaign finance reform
certainot
Oct 2014
#81
I agree on that the solution is not sitting it out, but I am not sure what the solution is.
merrily
Oct 2014
#120
It's up to candidates to inspire voters to turn out. Blaming the voters is simply scapegoating.
Scuba
Oct 2014
#3
but the left has allowed a political atmosphere where many 'inspirational' politicians don't
certainot
Oct 2014
#84
Actually, Crist was the better candidate than the "New Democrat" who ran against him in 2006.
Fuddnik
Oct 2014
#150
This election is as imprtant as 2016. We had better get as good as a Congress for the President....
marble falls
Oct 2014
#10
I'm in the Texas Hill country, with an abysmal Sen Cornyn and a Teabilly Rep, Williams ....
marble falls
Oct 2014
#17
there's always voter apathy and lazy voters and too busy voters and too-'principled' voters
certainot
Oct 2014
#113
Apparently the cure for voter apathy is, "find something to vote for." Apparently missed the
rhett o rick
Oct 2014
#149
If "None of the above" was on the ballot, I'd bet there'd be a lot of elections where he would win.
hobbit709
Oct 2014
#15
So, the Latinos you reference think that R control of the House HELPS immigration reform?
MH1
Oct 2014
#27
It's a political balancing act. As you know, control of the Senate hinges on a few
totodeinhere
Oct 2014
#54
Then why post on DU if Democratic values do not represent your interests? n/t
Dr Hobbitstein
Oct 2014
#67
Yes that was heinous, but it does not cancel out that he saved the country as it was circling the
merrily
Oct 2014
#122
FDR is considered the third best President of any party, after Washington and Lincoln.
merrily
Oct 2014
#178
holy FUCKING shit. You deserve the eternal Repuke majority you will inevitably end up with
yodermon
Oct 2014
#163
I challenge anyone to produce a perfect candidate, to produce a candidate who "keeps their
Thinkingabout
Oct 2014
#42
OK, i see you have Warren for the 100%, what bill has she gotten passed and enacted into law?
Thinkingabout
Oct 2014
#58
It may surprise you there are many candidates or potential candidates with their names in
Thinkingabout
Oct 2014
#82
The title of your post indicates people will vote when they have something to they want.
Thinkingabout
Oct 2014
#128
warren was kept out of the administration in the same way van jones was- with the left ignoring the
certainot
Oct 2014
#123
exactly, staying home, not voting or not making a vote for a selection on a ballot though
Thinkingabout
Oct 2014
#64
I'm not allowed to advocate for a third party on DU. If I understand....
Smarmie Doofus
Oct 2014
#106
OH GAWD.....more finger waving from people who tell us they are Democrats.....
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#51
I'm a Democrat in a State that gets pretty good turnout in most elections, we elect Democrats and
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2014
#74
I am sorry but I do not agree here......You are among a different kind of people there...
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#77
not voting is voting repub. republicans have been short circuiting democracy and the left ignores it
certainot
Oct 2014
#72
now, because IDIOTS haven't been voting, we have another permanent issue- GLOBAL WARMING
certainot
Oct 2014
#129
The remedy is not only putting up candidates. It's getting stuff done that helps people.
merrily
Oct 2014
#103
Look, during election season, trashing, undermining or depressing turnout for Dem candidates is
JTFrog
Oct 2014
#111
I'm back at DU after a several month layoff where I read from time to time but wasn't posting
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#135
This is true. But the questions is - why is it so hard to get people to do something about it?
Chathamization
Oct 2014
#137
Politics is a huge social minefield, it always has been but there are more and bigger mines now
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#140
Yeah, but the average Joe could easily spend a few hours a year reading up on primary and local
Chathamization
Oct 2014
#142
You can't penetrate the first layer of the tightly interwoven sphere of pure bullshit in that time
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#144
Well, that's true to some extent. That's why networks of progressives are useful. Each individual
Chathamization
Oct 2014
#146
The DC DEMS just can't help showing their 1% ways. And I'm pretty sure they don't care. They'll
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#138
Elections aren't cancelled because of voter apathy. SOMEONE wins and takes power.
CakeGrrl
Oct 2014
#145
I crack up at EVERY one of the self-congratulatory "DUers are sooo much more informed than
Number23
Oct 2014
#185