Nothing scares Republicans like huge turnouts.

[kentuck]

And in South Carolina today, over 500,000 reportedly turned out to vote in the Democratic primary. Someone needs to get George W Bush and Karl Rove on the stick and try to get that number down to more manageable levels. Sort of like the 29% that George W Bush won with when he beat Ann Richards for Governor of Texas. These huge turnouts are so disturbing to so many Republicans. What to do? What to do?

[TwilightGardener]

1. Hee!

[Nitrogenica]

Turnout is everything. I think America's right wing radio is in

for a reality check.

[JohnnyLib2]

4. What a deeeelicious thought!

:evilgrin:

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Lovin' it.

:kick:

[CountAllVotes]

3. me too!

:D :D :D :D :party: :toast: :party:


:dem:

[gratuitous]

5. Got that right

But the raw numbers I've seen are a little different. The highest turnout for a Democratic primary has been 290,000, and I've seen estimates as much as 300,000 on ABC News. I think 500,000 would be a tad over the top.

The point, however, is well-taken: The more people voting, the worse the results are for the Republicans. Which is why they work so damn hard on scams like Real ID, and harp constantly on the theme of voter fraud. Their solutions, all designed to suppress minority and low income voting, are desperately in search of an actual problem.

[gratuitous]

9. I was incorrect

According to the numbers on MSNBC, it appears that indeed more than half a million folks turned out for the Democratic primary, smashing the old record of 290,000!

I guess people are so enamored with the status quo that they turned out in record numbers for more of the same, huh?

Remember that last statement come November when the talking chuckleheads try to persuade you that record numbers are turning out to reaffirm the policies of the Bush administration (like the bill of goods they sold us in Ohio in 2004). Voters in the United States don't turn out to vote for more of the same; they turn out in big numbers and stand in line because they think their vote is going to change something, because they want something different.

Even in hidebound, rock-ribbed conservative South Carolina, people want something different. Something that is not George W. Bush and the bullshit agenda of the Republican party.

[dysfunctional press]

6. what to do? make sure that as many of the people as possible who turn up to vote get turned away.

see: florida 2000, and ohio 2004, for some of the various methods that can be employed for this purpose.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. It's a great day in America, kentuck! Change is in the air! Can you FEEL it?

[kentuck]

8. Actually...

I do. :-)

[UTUSN]

10. It's an eternal verity: If every eligible voter actually VOTED, there wouldn't be a single Rethug

in office anywhere.

Instead of Dems squabbling with one another, we should all be focused on voter registration, outreach, concrete logistics of getting people to the polls, long range knocking-down barriers to turnout.

Just about ANY Dem is always better than ANY Rethug---more visionary, smarter, idealistic, whatever. And just about any Dem is fairly all right on all of our issues. Instead of our fighting about "issues" or personalities, we should be focused on the masses of our NON-voting constituent groups.

The wingnut voters are the CORE and always vote and that number is ALL they've got. We have a HUGH!1 constituency of non-voters.