Message from @celticflame

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2018-11-11 07:41:31 UTC  

May you live in interesting times.

2018-11-11 07:41:38 UTC  

(we do)

2018-11-11 07:42:57 UTC  

@Reinhard Wolffgotta be careful not to take the bait.

2018-11-11 07:46:32 UTC  

"Latwinx"

2018-11-11 07:56:45 UTC  

New data from the Pew Research Center shows us that only 54 percent of whites voted for a republican candidate in the Midterms compared to the 57% of whites that voted for Trump. It's time we take our message to the suburbs. The question is how.

2018-11-11 08:25:15 UTC  

Great point^

2018-11-11 08:27:05 UTC  

Thats tough. Whites only become based when exposed to diversity. Think about white liberals in Vermont vs. fairly racially conscious whites in the South. The suburbs serve as a white pocket to insulate people against the very same "diversity" they're likely voting for

2018-11-11 08:29:43 UTC  

They voted more Democratic this time in opposition to Trump. They need to be warned of the consequences of voting Democratic.

2018-11-11 08:31:25 UTC  

I had an idea to do voter registration drivers in white working class areas

2018-11-11 08:32:10 UTC  

I don't know if you remember this, but I calculated that if we got half the registered voters in Washington who didn't vote to vote for Trump, we would have flipped the state

2018-11-11 08:32:36 UTC  

Of course, that's a pretty big task and it probably isn't going to happen, but it could work in some closer states

2018-11-11 08:32:44 UTC  

Could definitely have a massive impact in swing states

2018-11-11 08:34:16 UTC  

@Jacob Would IE be doing this?

2018-11-11 08:34:23 UTC  

It's a brilliant idea.

2018-11-11 08:34:38 UTC  

It could possibly be an IE activity

2018-11-11 08:35:10 UTC  

We'd have to be careful not to endorse any candidates, since, let's be honest, an endorsement from IE is gonna be more harm than good in this political climate

2018-11-11 08:35:19 UTC  

@Hakujin - CA where are your Northern or Southern in CA, curous

2018-11-11 08:35:31 UTC  

@celticflame Southern

2018-11-11 08:35:39 UTC  

Ok thanks @Hakujin - CA

2018-11-11 08:36:44 UTC  

We could just use really implicit language about how voting affects your childrens' future

2018-11-11 08:36:56 UTC  

Spent the day going through clothes to hopefully take to another member up north,up near the Paradise fires.

2018-11-11 08:37:07 UTC  

I mean, there wouldn't be much convincing to do. Just hold the drive in a white working class area that's probably right wing anyway.

2018-11-11 08:37:13 UTC  

@celticflame That's beautiful.

2018-11-11 08:37:33 UTC  

Thanks,i know you guys got hit down there too

2018-11-11 08:37:54 UTC  

I have a friend who had to evacuate his family in Thousand Oaks.

2018-11-11 08:38:03 UTC  

The whole state is on fire.

2018-11-11 08:38:17 UTC  

Oh man. Yes it is unfortunately

2018-11-11 08:39:04 UTC  

Hoping more of us can get together in spurts,see what we can do to help others out. Lots of folks

2018-11-11 08:39:47 UTC  

So many lost their homes,their whole livelyhood...

2018-11-11 08:40:42 UTC  

Anyways will check back later and see what others think.. gonna go to bed. Have a goodnight

2018-11-11 08:40:54 UTC  

Goodnight.

2018-11-11 08:42:18 UTC  

@Jacob I think some degree of persuasion is always important. I wonder if the same rhetoric would work in the Seattle Suburbs.

2018-11-11 08:43:22 UTC  

ehhh

2018-11-11 08:43:29 UTC  

Seattle suburbs are pretty liberal

2018-11-11 08:43:33 UTC  

and not as white as you think

2018-11-11 08:43:50 UTC  

but I mean I'm not against talking to people from there

2018-11-11 08:47:09 UTC  

@Jacob For sure. Eastern Washington would be the key. These elections results should only strengthen our resolution. 2020 is an opportunity to throw Doug Jones out with Tina Smith in Minnesota. That last one might be tricky, but outside of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota is very conservative.

2018-11-11 08:48:17 UTC  

Yes, Eastern Washington is going to be much easier to get recruits from

2018-11-11 08:48:45 UTC  

Because there's no big liberal cultural center that everyone feels the need to conform too

2018-11-11 08:48:50 UTC  

Even Spokane County is red

2018-11-11 08:49:02 UTC  

Whitman County, which has WSU, is usually light blue