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The above comment is something I can't identify with this party, the
"we can and should just find other groups of non-voting people to vote for our candidates, because the best course of action for the people we currently disagree with is to discount them in bulk and alienate them further."
Comment by SteamandDream at 11/10/2018 at 12:08 UTC
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How is this confusing? More people in this country lean D than R, but R’s have higher turnout and are over represented. Dems just need to increase turnout of Lean D’s and then they should be able to handily crush the R’s with our first past the post system.
There’s a reason why R’s are against automatic voter registration and making voting day a holiday: they’re afraid that the increased turnout would overwhelmingly favor D’s.
No one is discounting the dissidents. Rather, the dissidents are overly represented and the D’s are trying to fix that by increasing turnout.