This article is depressing

Mr. Deez

Mr. Deez

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I've wondered about this for years. People run for office and appeal to voters on issues of limited to no relevance to the office. I don't blame them for doing it. Most people would fall asleep if you ran for Land or Agriculture Commissioner on the actual details of the job, but it's sad nevertheless.

Should maximum voter participate really be the goal? I think the fewer idiots who vote (and are therefore influenced by irrelevant nonsense), the better.
 
maximum voter participation is not and never has been a goal.

I've run a number of political contests for friends and the goal of any candidate is not to get every voter involved but to identify those who are more likely to support them and get them out,

I ran campaigns mostly for women and our efforts were oriented overwhelmingly towards getting women to vote. If I was running a campaign for a republican in our county I would concentrate in getting as big a turnout as possible from the people on padre island-----they vote heavily and overwhelmingly for any republican running, I would not waste a nickel in robstown, where everybody is democrat.

Job one is to get out your vote and don't do anything to draw attention to you from people who don't like you to begin with,

Not one voter in ten knows anything about the candidates or what their job entails. The key to victory is to herd enough of these felines to the polling place to put your guy over the top.
 
comparing the gop of 1865 or 1965 with the southern dominated bunch now is a tad dishonest, is it not?

The Rockefeller republicans who helped LBJ are long gone and totally reviled in today's party
 
We need to get more people engaged in the process -- and we would hope intelligently engaged. The Democratic and Republican primaries are dominated by voters who are passionate and highly partisan. The most emotional voters are not necessarily dumb, but typically they would choose an idiot who says all the right things vs. a brilliant problem solver with whom they disagree on an issues or two.

A lot of good government is not so much having the right beliefs going in, but being ready to take a common sense and/or innovative approaches to problems and policies.
 
Seems that we have a choice between a small turnout of hyper-partisan voters or we can dilute their influence with less partisan, uneducated voters. 'Merica.
 
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