2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I really don't understand how Trump is even competitive in this race [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)Nothing we do will ever get those people to do anything other than vote GOP. We are in the situation we are in as a party because too many of our elected reps and people in power within the party have believed they can reach those people if they act just a little nice, just a little more bipartisan, just a little more conservative. No. They won't. They will never reach them.
The people we need to be reaching are the ones who don't currently vote and who feel the system in general has left them behind. There are waaaaaaaay more non-voters who think the system is rigged but aren't particularly partisan than there are Republicans who can be convinced to vote Democratic.
What's been so frustrating about the past 15-20 years is the number of voters we're continually leaving on the table and not paying attention to.