Folks, we've devolved into more meta about the President's recent appeal to turn out the vote in 2010. And I suppose that is OK, for what it is worth, but I wanted to comment on the actual substance of the President's message.
For years, those of us involved with progressive causes, and in particular, progressive Democratic political strategy, have been confounded by the traditional field program we have gotten out of the DNC and state parties when it comes to non-Presidential elections. Indeed, as Jim Hightower pointed out about the 1994 electoral disaster, had state parties spent event 1/10th of the money on GOTV for getting more Ds that voted in Presidential years than non-Presidential ones to come to the polls, we'd never have suffered big losses like when did in '94.
And that's what makes the President's strategy so refreshing and intriguing. It's a bet he's making with us...and we need to double down on it.
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