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Quixote1818

(28,946 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:16 PM Jun 2018

Have you ever been more motivated to vote in a midterm than this year?

I am so motivated I intend to vote on the first day of early voting to ensure if something happens like I get into a car accident before election day I will have already voted. Last election was the record for me and this election has beaten it. I would bet my life savings I will be voting straight Dem this fall.


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Much more motivated - They would have to kill me to prevent me from voting
13 (87%)
Slightly more motivated
0 (0%)
Slightly less motivated
0 (0%)
Much less motivated
0 (0%)
No Change in motivation
2 (13%)
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Have you ever been more motivated to vote in a midterm than this year? (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jun 2018 OP
Motivated to work for at least one candidate and do voter registration. bettyellen Jun 2018 #1
Yes, I will do everything in my power to make sure every Dem I know votes Quixote1818 Jun 2018 #2
I am no more motivated than at any other time Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #3
Yup. old guy Jun 2018 #7
I am printing up cards to carry with me to give a link to register to vote kimbutgar Jun 2018 #4
See where your help can do the most good. Funtatlaguy Jun 2018 #5
Thanks for the link. nt Quixote1818 Jun 2018 #8
We will vote as our life depends on it which it does literally AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #6
Indeed Funtatlaguy Jun 2018 #9
Someone says that they are not more motivated...and I have to wonder who they are and Demsrule86 Jun 2018 #10
Maybe they were always as motivated. I'd have Hortensis Jun 2018 #11
That is a very good point and I hope it is so... Demsrule86 Jun 2018 #25
You can click 'show usernames' leftstreet Jun 2018 #12
Can you? I didn't know that...wow...never figured that out...thanks. Demsrule86 Jun 2018 #24
Or... they answered the question actually asked. JHB Jun 2018 #15
I don't agree with that...clearly the question is are you more motivated this year...and yes Demsrule86 Jun 2018 #23
Recommended. H2O Man Jun 2018 #13
You realize that you'e set up the poll to give the reverse of what you're asking, right? JHB Jun 2018 #14
I don't see anyone being thrown for a loop. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #17
Don't be so sure. See the subthread from #10 above. JHB Jun 2018 #18
Not just to vote. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #16
Yes. Flaleftist Jun 2018 #20
I always vote struggle4progress Jun 2018 #19
No change. I always vote. Can't imagine not voting. (n/t) Iggo Jun 2018 #21
I have always been a proud and motivated voter from the age of 18 on. Equinox Moon Jun 2018 #22
Nothing would stop me from voting in this year's mid-term election. InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #26
I always vote in both mid terms and general election years Gothmog Jun 2018 #27
kick for more voting Demovictory9 Jun 2018 #28

Quixote1818

(28,946 posts)
2. Yes, I will do everything in my power to make sure every Dem I know votes
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:18 PM
Jun 2018

and make calls to get others to vote.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
3. I am no more motivated than at any other time
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:20 PM
Jun 2018

I believe that each election is important and we should all vote.

kimbutgar

(21,160 posts)
4. I am printing up cards to carry with me to give a link to register to vote
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:22 PM
Jun 2018

For California it is:

https://registertovote.ca.gov/

I’m printing the link on business cards and going to pass them out to get people registered to vote.

I know it’s not easy in many states but we can all do our thing and pass out voter registration information in each state we reside.

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
10. Someone says that they are not more motivated...and I have to wonder who they are and
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:28 PM
Jun 2018

why they are here. Trump is torturing children. I am so motivated to vote, I will vote the first day I can...

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. Maybe they were always as motivated. I'd have
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:33 PM
Jun 2018

checked that choice once, but here in my Georgia glowing-red district there's not always a meaningful candidate to choose for, sometimes not even a token Democrat to token-vote for.
This year, yes: two energetic Democratic candidates, got to have a favorite and even received robocalls from both campaigns!

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
25. That is a very good point and I hope it is so...
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:04 AM
Jun 2018

I used to live in first Marietta and then Woodstock so I get it...I used to write candidates in...or leave it blank...many times there were no Democrats running.

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
23. I don't agree with that...clearly the question is are you more motivated this year...and yes
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:02 AM
Jun 2018

I am.

H2O Man

(73,559 posts)
13. Recommended.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:51 PM
Jun 2018

I think I's qualify as "other." I'm always motivated to vote. But I do recognize this mid-term as the most important of my lifetime, and thus am highly motivated to get others to vote.

Good poll.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
14. You realize that you'e set up the poll to give the reverse of what you're asking, right?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:54 PM
Jun 2018

If one is the most motivated one has ever been, ever ever, to vote, then the answer to "Have you ever been more motivated to vote in a midterm than this year?" is "No" (or "Fucking NO!!!", I would think).

From your actual poll choices, however, the answers correlate to a question of "How motivated are you to vote in the midterms?"

It's not the same question.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
17. I don't see anyone being thrown for a loop.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:01 PM
Jun 2018

Is that the phrase? Hmmmm. I butcher so many phrases.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
18. Don't be so sure. See the subthread from #10 above.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:31 PM
Jun 2018

One person gave an answer to the question that was actually posed, and other people are questioning why that responder is here on DU? One even pointed out that the username could be identified. For what purpose?

All I'm pointing out is that proofreading matters. Be sure you're saying what you intend to say, don't make people have to try read your mind. They don't always end up in the place you intend.

Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)
20. Yes.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:36 PM
Jun 2018

I vote in every election, but I am more motivated than ever to donate as much money and time as I can to GOTV.

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