Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg...

[JHan]

26. Most people on this board would agree with all that, you're preaching to the choir..

however it doesn't address my point...

We have to stop focusing SO MUCh on the individual charisma or lackthereof of a Presidential candidate and focus much more on real grassroots activism where we understand all politics is ( first of all) local. I would have thought that Obama's second term taught us that you could have all the charisma in the world, but if you're a Democratic President without support from Dems in congress and by extension, Dem Governors in States, you're hamstringed.

In fact everything you described proves my point: Civic awareness has never ever been more critical, it doesn't help when Democrats opt out of voting - Using silly excuses like "my candidate wasn't inspirational" or some other nonsense. There are lots of boring elections that take place which have a greater impact on people's day to day which dems ignore. You'd think we'd have learned from 2010.. I guess not.