Message from @jackborne1893
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Agreed
Let's find a way to change the course somehow, theorize, strategize or whatever, but let's do that later, it's the middle of the night and I'm gonna hit the bed.
This reminds of 2017 too,
Look at Virginia last year. Yes, it's a purple state but going into the election Republicans controlled 66 of 100 seats in their legislature. They lost 15 seats and only maintained their majority by a fucking random drawing. And it wasn't because of massive Democrat turnout (yes, Dem turnout was higher than the last election but not overly so), it was because of MASSIVELY lower GOP turnout in rural areas. Republicans lost seats in places that never should have even been in play.
while Democrat turnout is higher in percentage,
it's not in raw numbers.
Democrats noticed after GA06 that when they don't announce the vote, only Dems will turn out because of their anger.
REPUBLICANS,
GET,
OFF,
YOUR,
LAZY,
ASSES
**VOTE**
I just woke up and looked through the rest of the thread last night, great discussion guys !
I'm not surprised by that D shift
as I mentioned before....state legislature elections can be massively gamed because people don't really hear about them
which means that the pissed off motivated side does the best
I'm gonna rewrite the OP for the general thread
Hard to understate just how disastrous a sign for 2018 the GOP's loss in the WI state Senate special election (SD-10 in Western WI) is. Harsdorf an incumbent who made this seat look stronger for GOP than it naturally is, but still, a 9pt loss among Trump's core vote? DOOM.
state legislature elections in January =/= congressional elections in November
can't be as bad as Warren (fucking kill me plz)
4 elections in deeply Trump districts tonight. All saw huge swing toward Dems compared to 2016 pres results.
SC HD99: +15% net swing toward Dems
IA HD06: +18%
WI SD10: +24% or +27%
WI AD58: +25%
We have a turnout problem
yeah, so the question is...what can be done to make Republicans turn out
and what are the Democrats doing to make them turn out
I'm guessing a lot of funding
We can't do this online
We need to go knocking on doors
make phone calls
a lot of organization through websites like the Daily Kos
put up fliers, etc.
GOTV efforts
oh yeah
yes, exactly
I'm not sure what the hell the GOP is doing
they should be aware of this
they already gave up
wtf
honestly one of the best things we can do is spread this information to every right leaning person we can find
as proof that they still need to vote for these elections