We Better Not Take This Victory for Granted

Now that the euphoria of Tuesday is wearing off, the election reality of the past three elections over the past 4 years should teach us something. If we turn out the vote, we win, if we don't we're doomed.

Here in Massachusetts, it's a striking difference between the Special Election on Jan. 19, 2010 and Nov. 6, 2012. In a large turnout election, no one touches our candidates. In a low turn out election, a half-witted Republican took Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in the Bay State.

2012 was a great victory for us. I loved it, and it made an electoral statement. But here's a fact of life, politically speaking. There are more of us than there are of them. Young people, minorities and union members. However, we seem to turn out in Presidential Election years and they turn out all the time.

If we don't keep the same passion and organization for the 2014 elections as we did this past Tuesday, we will have a short lived celebration, and the other side will clean our clock in the "off year".

I never miss a vote, and I'm sure those of you here at DU don't either. But if we want to avoid elections that appear like ocean tides that run in two year cycles, we had better not let happen to us again what happened to us in 2010.