"A ton of people didn’t vote because they couldn’t get time off from work"

[A Little Weird]

19. +1

I agree. Some states make it easier than others. Change election day to the weekend, offer early voting or mail-in voting - and make whatever options that exist clear and easy to do. I think this will help a lot of folks.

Some posters are saying that people are using busyness as an excuse and they could vote if they really wanted to. There may be some truth to that. But rather than getting all self-righteous about it, I think we need to do some serious self-reflection about why our candidates aren't getting people to the polls. Democrats need to offer something that gets people excited to vote. Obama got people excited - they showed up at the polls because they actually had a chance to vote for someone. Most elections offer a choice between bad and worse and we are expected to choose the one that will screw us over the least. We've got to get back to progressive, populist principles that will get people motivated to vote and quit running republican-lite candidates.