I call this the Beto effect. Hard to believe but many Dem candidates are underfunded because the party is.. well, it's the party that lost 2016. But a few splashy races give the opposite impression—the way holding the presidency 2008-2016 hid the electoral collapse of the party.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1049495854590189569 …
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Having studied movements/opposition in many countries, one frequent theme in losing efforts is the ratio of attention to factors not-under-their-control vs. factors under their control! This may get people upset with me but both Dem leaders & "resistance" often share this trait.
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Where is the effort to balance funding so that obviously super-safe Dem seats aren't raising millions while first-time candidates building infrastructure (for the future, if not this election) have real money? Don't see it. It's like 2016 didn't happen. 2008-2016 didn't happen.
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Take voter ID laws. Where's the nationwide mobilization to get an ID for everyone? Send college students to help poor folks navigate the bureaucracy, drive them to DMV etc. "ID summer!" Nope, just many articles on how unfair it is. Fine but not enough for winning political power.
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There are multiple nationwide organizations working on voter engagement and mobilization including the ACLU and NAACP. Individual campaigns also do this work. One thing to consider is that registration and identification rules vary from state to state.
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Of course there's some groups.. As always. Do you think it is a high-level effort, proportional to the stakes. Of course, the rules vary from state-to-state. After all the commotion, you'd think the country would have been blanketed with a "get-an-ID" mobilization.
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It took 3 work days to get my non-driving elderly parent a government ID. Most college students can’t afford that.
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A mobilization is when you get college students or similar groups as your volunteers but have an organization that underwrites the costs. College students have the days, an organization puts up the money. It can and should be non-partisan. It's mind-blowing that it doesn't exist.
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It's mindblowingly harder than that -- not just the time, or cost, the documentation is a stupidly high bar. And I was family, she'd been a gov't employee for 40 years. I knew where to look. It's a nice idea you have. I can't imagine infrastructure to support it.
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I can! Movements/mobilizations in this country and around the world have cleared much, much higher bars. Doesn't mean every case works. At a minimum, it would be good. People need IDs. Much rest of world has voter ID laws...
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