If only there were some way of mobilising the masses to go out and vote. Unfortunately, having already won the war of ideas, there is no point considering what might do that or how Obama managed a 65% turnout because there's no need to engage in ideas anymore.

The only thing left to do is to continue to shame people into voting and to triple down on Biden. The DNC cannot fail, it can only be failed 🫠

The argument doesn’t make sense. Historically, higher turnouts have helped Democrats more so than Republicans, but that’s due to the particular politics of the elections in question. It’s not some absolute rule. Plus it depends a lot on where the higher than normal turnout occurs. Hitting 95% turnout in New York and California won’t do shit.

Obama won in a walk, the Democrats had a historical supermajority, and then did fuck all with it.

The problem is the democrats don't give anything for people to come out and vote for.

Despite decrying liberal democratic elections and their meaninglessness, the fr*nch and ukian elections put me back on the election "analysis" mindset. I feel compelled to respond to the OP from reddit.world. Is it true that higher turnout simply means democrats win?

2012: 58.6% turnout, Obama wins
2016: 60.1% turnout, Trump wins
2020: 66.6% turnout, Biden wins

The issue with truisms is that they usually aren't true. When someone says "the average age of fox news viewers is 67" they imply these people will basically die by the next decade, but leave it the fact that this average isn't going up by 4 every election cycle.

Also it's a unique fun to see lemmitors fight by calling each other out on how much of a redditor each other are.

this isn’t a competition of ideas, it’s a competition of engagement.

Boy if that don’t succinctly describe the democrats.

If they really wanna increase turnout, these posters should be focusing their local candidates, making arguments tailored to those places and people. Give your neighbors a reason that's upfront and personal to show up on Tuesday.

There's nothing new to be said about the presidential side of things, harping on about it with the same arguments week after week and month after month is more likely to exhaust people and burn them out before november.

“This isn’t a war of ideas. We surrendered decades ago.”