06-25-2022, 09:01 AM
(06-24-2022, 10:04 PM)Au165 Wrote: Yes. Because mobilization is why incumbent parties usually lose mid terms. These topics have only ever impacted a small portion of people on either side but they have always been massive mobilization platforms. Donald Trump didn’t get bounced for things effecting most the country (inflation, 401ks, etc), he got bounced because of mobilization efforts around larger picture topics that didn’t impact most people.
The reality is youth voters are the sleeping giant of elections and it usually takes large cultural topics to mobilize them. Flippantly dismissing it because the topics seem irrelevant to you is a fools errand.
(06-24-2022, 10:10 PM)samhain Wrote: You think 1 percent of the population uses birth control? I'd blow Thomas's comments up everywhere if I were a Dem strategist.
Not to mention that even the abortion topic alone is not just framed around the act of abortion. The rhetoric around abortion is that making it illegal is treating women as second-class citizens without full rights. That they do not have autonomy over their own bodies. Many women that never have had an abortion, or maybe never would consider getting one themselves, see this as a patriarchal move that disenfranchises them. That's the rhetoric around abortion for a large chunk of the population.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
