Ultimately we need to convince pro-choice voters who vote Republican for other reasons to defect in at least some partisan races, not just to vote our way in referendums. To your point, every office helps. I'm not sure if we can do this in a vacuum though; that is, only with abortion. The Democratic party needs to win larger shares of th…
Ultimately we need to convince pro-choice voters who vote Republican for other reasons to defect in at least some partisan races, not just to vote our way in referendums. To your point, every office helps. I'm not sure if we can do this in a vacuum though; that is, only with abortion. The Democratic party needs to win larger shares of the vote everywhere, because of the structure of our system of government, and it's probably worth examining if not our positions at least our rhetoric on other issues. I don't know what we would need to do to get our share of the national vote up to 54 or 55 percent, but we need to figure it out. Unless we're going to replace our constitution or something, which might be what ultimately happens if the Republicans install a dictatorship in 2025 and we have to dislodge it.
Ultimately we need to convince pro-choice voters who vote Republican for other reasons to defect in at least some partisan races, not just to vote our way in referendums. To your point, every office helps. I'm not sure if we can do this in a vacuum though; that is, only with abortion. The Democratic party needs to win larger shares of the vote everywhere, because of the structure of our system of government, and it's probably worth examining if not our positions at least our rhetoric on other issues. I don't know what we would need to do to get our share of the national vote up to 54 or 55 percent, but we need to figure it out. Unless we're going to replace our constitution or something, which might be what ultimately happens if the Republicans install a dictatorship in 2025 and we have to dislodge it.