2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: That story about the DNC no longer enthusiastically signing up young kids on campuses is a shocker! [View all]MineralMan
(151,435 posts)I personally registered about 100 new voters in my little precinct. When I canvass, I always have a bunch of registration forms and am happy to help people fill them out and mail them for them. Since we also have registration at the polling place on election day, when the deadline had passed, I'd explain how to do that to people who still hadn't registered. I told them what to bring with them to show their residence in the precinct.
I saw some of the people who I helped register on election day at our polling place, too.
That is what people do in their own local area. It's not the job of the DNC, which doesn't have volunteers walking precincts. It's the job of the local party and individual candidates. If they don't do it, they shouldn't complain about their supporters not showing up at the polls.
Obama did it. Al Franken did it, and won because of the new voters who came to the polls. That's how you win elections if you're not a household word and a long-time politician.
That's what the Sanders organization needed to do in SC. Apparently, they didn't get it done. Hillary won almost 3 to 1 there. It should be an object lesson, I think, on how to win.