NO EXCUSES FOR NOT VOTING ! NONE ! PERIOD !

[RBInMaine]

In many states, mine (Maine) included, you can vote right from home and/or vote early (even with the crappy efforts by the GOPers to reduce this). In Maine and other states, go online, request an absentee ballot in about one minute, hit a button, they send it to you, fill it out, mail it in right from home. DONE. I do it all the time, as I have already done this cycle too. Other states have other early voting options. Or, go to your town/city office and vote early there, or at your polling place during early voting. If you can't vote early, go on election day and take someone with you.

The stakes are so high. And this CRAP about Dems/Progressives not voting in mid terms is inexcusable. I will accept no nonsense either about "The Dems aren't being progressive enough, or they aren't "exciting enough"....wahh wahh wahh..." and using that foolishness as an excuse. Blaming the candidates, the party, etc. is just code language for "I want to be a complainer and blame others for my own apathy." Think about it. Complain, stay home, allow the evil incarnate TeaPublicans to win, then bitch louder and blame the Dems when the TeaPubs do evil things. Totally foolish. Total nonsense. Totally ridiculous, really. So please, there are HUGE differences between the parties, and even a moderate Dem is a thousand times better than any rotten TeaScumLican. If the absolute corrupt evil of the TeaPublicans isn't enough to motivate every single Dem/Progressive to take the few minutes necessary to vote, nothing will.

All this said, these will be CLOSE elections nonetheless, so if we do our job and just VOTE, we will be fine overall in this cycle. So many races are SO close. Imagine getting rid of that slimeball Walker in WI, Brownback in KS, Roberts in KS, winning even in SD, getting rid of snake head Scott in Fl, keeping NH and CO and LA and AR and AK senate seats blue, getting rid of the lunatic Paul LePage in my state of Maine...my goodness, it is just a no-brainer. GO VOTE, and GOTV for the party. I am. We all can. Thanks.

[ZombieHorde]

1. I like your OP, but some people do have good excuses, in my opinion.

Good excuses include recently moved, recent death of child, recent terrible accident, etc. Those are rare situations, and the vast majority of us probably won't have a good excuse.

[RBInMaine]

4. Right, I'm not talking about extreme circumstances.

[Z_California]

2. I have 2 Republicans to choose from

For our congressional seat. Still gonna vote for local progressives though.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. There are no real dems on my ballot here.

NO city or county Dems.
Only Repubs for Congress.
the bigger cities might have dems for local races...

We have a so-called Dem running for Gov. He is a faux Dem, who has switched parties twice in order to win races.
A lifelong member of the Democratic Party, while serving in Congress, at the urging of Republicans he switched parties on December 22, 2009.
He ran for re-election in 2010 but was defeated in the Republican primary by Tea Party favorite Mo Brooks.
Supporters of Griffith circulated petitions to place him on the November ballot as an Independent.Griffith decided against it.
He returned to the Democratic Party in 2014 and is now running for Governor of Alabama in the 2014 election.

He opposes Dem. issues and favors Republican issues.

This election marks the first time in Alabama history that no Democratic candidate is running in the U.S. Senate race

http://ballotpedia.org/Alabama_elections,_2014
Jeff Sessions is up again for his Senate shoo-in,
He makes Lindsey Graham look like John Wayne.

[RBInMaine]

5. Just vote for any Dem you can. If there is a D, vote it. Can't be worse than an R.

[RBInMaine]

6. Good.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. VOTE! (...if you're still allowed to...)

[RBInMaine]

8. Yes, bring what you need, get registered, and GO VOTE. No crying in your soup.

What to do? Cry in the soup or adult-up, suck it up, and GO VOTE. Do what it takes.

[appalachiablue]

9. WE'LL VOTE DEM

this election in VA, NC, FL, CA. Family of 5 generation Dems. in 9 states originally from WVA, OH, VA, MD. Right.