"If everyone in this country voted, the Democrats would be in power the next 100 years."

[Playinghardball]

[Gothmog]

1. Which is why the GOP is the party of voter suppression

[maxsolomon]

2. Vote By Mail for all states.

With No Postage Required envelopes.

Going to the polling place is archaic.

[Le Taz Hot]

5. Excellent suggestion.

But it still leaves the problem with voting machines. It is, however, a start.

By the way, and I think I told you this before, but your screen name is a character in one of my favorite sleeper movies. Besides, I'm a huge Sarandon fan.

[Fozzledick]

8. At least it would produce an auditable paper trail.

Initial machine tallies could still be rigged, but at least there would be re-countable paper ballots, unlike with fully-automated black-box voting.

[Marr]

3. If everyone in this country voted, the Democratic Party would look very different, too.

The opposition party would start at about what's currently 'centrist Democrat' and reach rightward to about Mitt Romney. The types who are currently running for the Republican presidential nomination would be extreme fringe candidates who could never even hope to win anything wider than a state level election.

[malthaussen]

4. Hell, if half the people in this country voted, it would do it.

Less than 30% just isn't going to hack it.

-- Mal

[MineralMan]

6. GOTV!

[Scuba]

11. And buggy whips!

Sorry, my experience with phone banking and door knocking does not suggest these are the path to election victory in 2016. The electronic media in general and the social media in particular are where it's at.

If GOTV doesn't move beyond the traditional tools of fingers and footsteps we will continue to get our asses handed to us on election day.

What else do you do in your area to GOTV? Concerts? Card tables on campuses? What works?

[MineralMan]

12. GOTV involves many strategies. Different strategies work

on different voters. I've found that door-to-door works well for me in getting uncommitted voters to go to the polls, so that's what I do. I think GOTV activists should do what works best for them. Do what you're good at.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

7. True dat!

[Snobblevitch]

9. "If everyone in this country voted..."

What a ridiculous comments. "If" statements bug me. If the dog did not stop to take a dump he would have caught the rabbit.

[bvf]

10. "'If' statements bug me."

Me too. That's why I don't carry any insurance and absolutely refuse to look both ways before crossing the street.

[Snobblevitch]

13. What a ridiculous statement.

[bvf]

15. I was just agreeing with you.

I thought "if" statements bugged you, as in "if I get in an accident...," or "if there's a car barreling down the street I'm about to cross..."

Those both qualify, according to your post, no?

[Snobblevitch]

16. No. You are not making a valid comparison. EOM

[bvf]

17. Of course I am.

Without any qualification, you flatly stated that "if" statements bug you, and went on with some nonsense about a dog pursuing a rabbit, but stopping to poop, and comparing that to the gist of the OP.

Is that a fair assessment of your post? I think it is.

[0rganism]

14. how about a quick game of counter-factuals?

[jeff47]

18. Golly...maybe Democrats could try putting up people to vote for

instead of relying on "vote against the Republican".