Liberal plan to win back Congress hinges on California's millennials

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Liberal plan to win back Congress hinges on California’s millennials
McClatchy Washington Bureau 08 MAR 2018 AT 17:22 ET

The path to a Democrat-controlled Congress most likely runs through California. Liberal philanthropist Tom Steyer believes that path hinges on the state's nearly 10 million millennials.

The challenge is making sure those young voters show up at the polls in November. Voter turnout traditionally drops precipitously in mid-term elections. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, much of state's record low voter participation in 2014 was because of abysmally low turnout among young people.

The billionaire former hedge fund manager is aiming to reverse that trend in 2018, and is preparing to spend at least $3.5 million on grass-roots outreach to millennials in the state to do it, according to an election plan shared with The Sacramento Bee. As of now, Steyer's organization, NextGen America, has 15 full-time staff working on its millennial outreach program in the state's seven Republican congressional districts that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won in 2016. They expect that number to double to 30 full-time staff by November, with another 50 part-time workers.

Steyer says that's why his group is reaching out to millennials in 10 pivotal states across the country in 2018, with the aim of getting 250,000 to the polls. The California congressional races amount to roughly a quarter of the 30 House seats NextGen America is targeting. Steyer announced in January he is prepared to invest $30 million, total, in the organizing effort.


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/liberal-plan-win-back-congress-hinges-californias-millennials/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This is both true and very worrisome.

Putting CA aside for the moment, as this is a nationwide concern, the millennial vote is the key and boy oh boy many of them have been sold a load of horseshit about purity and one has to just cross their fingers and PRAY they understand the 2 party system, that NOTHING else matters but math.

NOTHING

[Retrograde]

2. How about some other states pulling their weight for a change?

Much as I'd like to see Nunes, Rohrbacker, Issa, McCarthy, and others gone, California already sends a strong Democratic contingent to Congress. What I'd like to see is more effort and resources going to electing Democrats in states that are starting to lean Democratic, such as Texas and Florida, as well as getting the people in Wisconsin and Michigan who didn't bother to get off their rear ends to vote in 2016 to show up at the ballot box this year.