2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Democratic voter turnout was 285 percent worse in states with new voter ID laws." [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Did you ever actually see or worked on a DNC-sponsored voter registration event? I have registered thousands of voters, but never once as a Democratic Party volunteer. Not even for the state party. And I would have if there was an opportunity. But the majority of those voters were registered with small local c3 groups and a few with the Obama campaign. Oh, yeah, I got super-depressed about the John Kerry campaign in 2004 and just went out an DID some events on my own initiative.
What's stopping you?
Do I agree with Dean's 50-state strategy? In theory, yes. But after my experience with the local and state party, hmmmmm... It's complicated. Probably easier to just let candidates and c3s run those, due to the entrench dysfunction present in many local party organizations.
And Obama did his own damn voter registration, not the DNC.