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LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
29. "I'm going to keep telling people this until it finally fucking penetrates."
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 07:47 PM
Jun 2017

Sad to say it may NOT penetrate.

I keep seeing where many Dems are getting their hopes up super-high about voting in 2018, and in reality our voting systems are in disrepair, and growing worse for Dems. Whether it's voter purging, gerrymandering, voter crosschecking, restrictive voter ID laws, we NOW also have the ruskies interfering into the mix as well to worry about. How are we going to vote Dems into office wen our voting apparatus is vulnerable, hackable and when gerrymandering, voter-purging and voter crosschecking and voter ID is killing us by removing us from voter rolls o taking away our votes? thuglicans run every part of government and vote tally all across this country. Do you think they'll make it easier for Dems to vote them out of office especially when they can increase their #'s in the House/Senate and be closer than EVER to monkeying around with the Constitution? thuglicans have it too good--they control everything, meanwhile Dems risk becoming a permanent minority party if our votes don't count or we can't vote.

We needed Howard Dean back leftofcool Jun 2017 #1
I second this.. townie Jun 2017 #13
I'm sure he would of liked to have continued to be DNC Chair or appointed HHS Secretary liskddksil Jun 2017 #19
You are right leftof cool. His 50 state strategy worked, fight for every state, and recognize some still_one Jun 2017 #26
A lot of things zipplewrath Jun 2017 #2
There wouldn't have been any gerrymandering between 2008 and 2010. FBaggins Jun 2017 #5
1) Democrats get excited by presidential elections. Midterms are booooring. Or something... Hekate Jun 2017 #3
Good points. YoungDemCA Jun 2017 #4
Solid. nt. NCTraveler Jun 2017 #7
I've been one of the Democrats who hasn't always voted in midterms. Never again! Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #10
Everyone I know votes in every election... Salviati Jun 2017 #27
We are not a midterm party Awsi Dooger Jun 2017 #12
I think many people won't self-identify as liberal because it's become a "bad word"... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #18
Newt Gingrich wrote the alt-vocabulary list & he was media-savvy. Look to Newt & the long game. nt Hekate Jun 2017 #20
+1 treestar Jun 2017 #14
Exactly my point. I get so disgusted with "our side" I could spit. Hekate Jun 2017 #21
Lazy Democrats thinking only Presidential Elections count! I've seen them, I've known them. And, RKP5637 Jun 2017 #6
The politics of healthcare, recovery and successful GOP messaging, and gerrymandering. SaschaHM Jun 2017 #8
Worked the phones in Wisconsin 2010. "Obamacare" and Greybnk48 Jun 2017 #9
The president's party generally loses in midterm elections mythology Jun 2017 #11
because the party leadership since 2008 has not cared about local/state offices and so msongs Jun 2017 #15
They voted for healthcare and to save the economy. They were voted out because of that emulatorloo Jun 2017 #16
A lot of infighting and lack of coordination between campaigns crazycatlady Jun 2017 #17
Ask Tim Kaine? moondust Jun 2017 #22
It was fucking RIGGED. THAT'S what happened. nt LaydeeBug Jun 2017 #23
they were blue dogs that lost and people bragged about not supporting them JI7 Jun 2017 #24
Gerrymandering and voter suppression. Starry Messenger Jun 2017 #25
"I'm going to keep telling people this until it finally fucking penetrates." LenaBaby61 Jun 2017 #29
Organizing for Action (America) damaged the DNC. To such a degree that karadax Jun 2017 #28
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