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In reply to the discussion: I had an impromptu lunch today with a member of Party Leadership... [View all]ismnotwasm
(42,674 posts)And stop taking them for granted. Work intensely with these populations, arrange to be invited into their communities, their churches and schools and DO NOT use them as photo ops.
The only reason to "reach out" to certain Trump voters is because they are already politically engaged--at least to the point they vote. Yeah it's probably true some of them would have voted for anyone BUT Hillary--(and that needs some analysis--but the analysis needs to go much further than the asinine "she was a poor/weak candidate crap) But there are more or less untapped smaller populations (Native Americans, 2nd generation immigrants, politically unengaged working class) that in many cases decided third party was the way to go. Why was this? Find out why youth voted for Trump. Start alliances in High schools--there are some terrified and or confused kids right now. Tap into the "resistance" organizations. They aren't all Dems, but I'll bet they'll vote Democrat. Have a presence at every protest possible. Arrange to survey places that have historically low voting turn out--find out why. Get activists to help people to register to vote, to register as Democrats. I know Democrats are already doing a lot of this--so I don't think this is creative, but boots on the ground is what's needed. Small Community meetings--the ACLU had a well organized resistance type training. The ACLU is not Democrats.