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Of all strategies, none is more important than this
SHAUN KING
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 12:31 PM
... This Republican Congress is not going to impeach Donald Trump. They are all in so deep with him that impeaching him would be an indictment on themselves. They helped get him here. These are the same people, mind you, who blocked President Obama's Supreme Court nominee for nearly a year simply because they felt like it — effectively stealing the nominee from him. They don't have the guts, backbone, will or moral high ground to impeach Trump. They are down in the dirt with him.
... we should put nearly all of our eggs into one essential basket — voter turnout ... This past weekend, France had its lowest voter turnout for a presidential election in a generation. Nearly 75% of voting age adults cast a ballot. That's down from a turnout of nearly 85% in France just a decade ago.
... the lowest turnout in decades for France is better than ... any presidential election in the United States since 1896. In fact, we haven't had a turnout of 60% .. since the 1960s. The highest voter turnout in my lifetime was .. in 2008 and .. only 57.1% of voting-age adults cast a ballot.
Here's how other countries compare: 87.2% of those eligible voted in Belgium, 85.2% in Turkey, 82.6% in Sweden and 80.4% in South Korea. In fact, voter turnout in the United States drastically trails almost every developed country in the world ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-strategy-defeat-donald-trump-article-1.3153040