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flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
1. I hope his campaign focuses on voter registration
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:13 PM
Feb 2016

or they'll be leaving a lot on the table for all of us in November.

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
3. 1) Registration 2) Contact 3) GOTV.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:31 PM
Feb 2016

Get their contact at the rallies and follow up, make sure they vote. That's it.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
4. Absolutely, something is going on with high attendance at the rallies
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:33 PM
Feb 2016

and not showing up at the polls.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
13. It happens all the time
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:51 PM
Feb 2016

Go to YouTube and see the monster rallies that Nader, Rmoney and Paul had.

They didn't show up in the voting booth though , go figure

 

bjobotts

(9,141 posts)
8. 120k in '08 with 7 candidates, 80k in '16 with 2 candidates
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:29 PM
Feb 2016

That's a little over 17k voter turn out per candidate in '08 yet there's 40k per candidate voter turn out in 2016. It depends on how you do the math whether there was lower voter turn out huh. Don't buy it. Sanders is winning the popular vote hands down.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. I think it's pretty obvious by now that AGE is going to be what decides the election.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:20 PM
Feb 2016

Bernie's got to turn out young voters, get them out to the polls, not just to the rallies.

And youngsters, you need to work on your parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents. Ask them to join in voting for YOUR future. Not to tell you what to do by electing the candidate of the past, but to help you get the future YOU want by voting for the candidate for the future. The one who will actually at least TRY to do things, even when the deck is strongly stacked against him. Hell, this very election is going to be the metaphor for his time in office. Everything and everyone in the old guard fighting against him, and him refusing to be squashed because you're right there to join with him, and demand change.

book_worm

(15,951 posts)
7. How does Hillary win Nevada by nearly six points
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 08:25 PM
Feb 2016

by losing latinos and whites? and winning in Latino neighborhoods? It doesn't add up. Too many questions have been raised by that "entrance poll" to trust it. But when your clinging to straws I guess you got to take what you can.

LiberalArkie

(15,719 posts)
9. The latinos may have indicated who they wanted to vote for but found their union bosses
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:42 PM
Feb 2016

inside as caucus workers.

 

The Traveler

(5,632 posts)
11. Funny. I always thought numbers were a way of measuring performance
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:47 PM
Feb 2016

for the purposes of adjusting strategy.

If you want to find an emotional trigger in numbers, go look at how Clinton stacks up against Trump in the latest analysis of electoral votes based on state polls. Ms. Clinton looks unelectable to me.

Cheers

Trav

Broward

(1,976 posts)
14. I think where people get their news is probably contributing to the age divide.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:52 PM
Feb 2016

Older voters gravitate toward TV where you're force fed more BS while younger voters likely get most of their news online.

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