Motivating voter turnout among Democrats in 2022: It is up to us, and we can do this!

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/04/winning-2022-mid-term-elections-means.html

Last fall, in November, I determined that I wasn't going to listen to the "conventional wisdom," or accept excuses for doing nothing because "the party in power always loses the mid-term elections." What that usually means is that after making an effort to win a Presidential election, voters decide to handicap the President they elected by putting the other side in control of the legislative agenda. Both of the last two Democrats who have been in the White House were highly successful Presidents, but think about how much more they could have done if they'd have had a favorable Congress through at least three fourths of their two terms.

Democrats need to keep their House and Senate majorities, and expand them if possible, and it is possible. We need to break the filibuster and get things done during the next two years of President Biden's first term. The constitution will not be recognizeable if we don't succeed.

It's up to us, the "rank and file." We need to take the initiative, not wait around for someone else to do something or wring our hands because "the party in power always loses the midterms." We have the power and the ability to win this, and we need to step up and do everything we can to make it happen, especially committing to show up and vote.

[mahina]

1. I'm not very familiar with that platform but I found the writers main page and I have to say I liked

What he or she had to say. The message is right on point, just what I needed to hear. Thank you.

Ps is that you? If so, well done.

[lees1975]

2. Yes, it's me.

Thank you. I've been an amateur journalist as a sideline for most of my career, even had a radio talk show at one point.

[mahina]

3. Awesome!

Inspiring and informative, right on the tide. 🙌🤙🏼🤙🏼🌸
And useful.
Aloha.

[lees1975]

4. Getting turnout is the key

But I think the biggest job ahead is simply getting voters to the polls. Eighty million people cast ballots for President Biden in 2020 and, given the kind of turnout a midterm election generates, getting about 60% of those people back, voting the same way, will yield a Democratic-controlled Congress for the next two years. I don't know why we can't get 100% of those voters back, since it is pretty clear the Trump administration was a disaster and after January 6th, we know what a GOP majority will do. We can't let that happen.

[Quixote1818]

5. I feel move motivated than in past midterm elections because the GOP is getting more nuts nt

[BeckyDem]

6. +1. A must.

[lees1975]

7. K & R