Millions of people voted against their own interests in 2016. All are not "Assholes."

[MineralMan]

82. Yes. That's what I've been doing since 1960. Every election, I manage to convince

a few people who would not otherwise vote to actually vote. A few. I'm one person, and I'm pretty good at convincing people to go to the polls, but I'm just one person.

It's hard to get non-voters to vote. They don't see the benefit of it, frankly, and have other concerns. In some ways, it's easier to get a voter to change their vote, especially if they weren't really enthusiastic about their last vote. If the people they voted for disappointed them, it's not so hard to get them to try something else.

I do that, too, in my GOTV efforts. It's not really as hard, if you stick with working on people who voted for a party based on habit. A lot of people do that. A lot of people voted for Donald Trump without having any idea about his racism, sexism and xenophobia. A lot of them never really thought about any of that at all. They heard a blivet from one of his rally speeches that encouraged them, because Trump lies a lot. But, they don't follow the news much. They vote because it is their habit to vote. They vote for Republicans because it is their habit to vote for Republicans.

We need to convert maybe 10% of those voters. I think we could do that. If we also get a few percent of non-voters to actual go to the polls and vote for a Democrat, too, we'd win in a landslide. But, it all takes work. Frankly, there aren't enough people willing to work on that to get those numbers nationally.

More's the pity, I think.