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In reply to the discussion: Young people don't vote when the people they would vote for are continually bashed. [View all]myrna minx
(22,772 posts)6. What was the Democtatic Party's message to youth voters this mid-term?
What was their strategy and out reach?
Senator Franken reached out to the youth directly about their horrible burden of student debt, and he won handily on a populist message that appealed to many groups.
Again, what was the Democtatic Party's message?
I agree that voter suppression is a huge problem and the disenfranchisement of our youth and especially African Americans in is new Jim Crow era is disturbing, but what is the Party doing to address these generational defining issues? Why is party leadership not expected to address these issues and the big bad evil left is responsible?
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Young people don't vote when the people they would vote for are continually bashed. [View all]
joshcryer
Nov 2014
OP
So, you would disenfranchise yourself because someone on the internet hurt your feelings?
Sheldon Cooper
Nov 2014
#3
The MSM could have spent six months telling me that Obama eats live kittens
Sheldon Cooper
Nov 2014
#25
Maybe they didn't vote because no candidate stood for anything they would vote for.
hobbit709
Nov 2014
#10
Insulate them from mean words, and make it possible to vote on Twitter.
cherokeeprogressive
Nov 2014
#14