The only power, we, the people, have and have ever had is the vote. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!

I think Democrats need idea contests to find the best campaigns. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So far, Trump and the Right have totally dominated the media. Trump reminds me of WC Fields:"Never give a sucker an even break!" Democrats have been suckers for Trump and the Republican Right. This has to stop, if the Democrats hope to take the House in November. If they invite all Democrats to submit campaign ideas, maybe they can win. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Excellent. Dems need to build on it and sustain it through the midterms and on.

Current front page says it all. Sad day for the US. We gotta get this abomination outta there...and until then, displace all Repubs. Only way forward is to overwhelm Repub voters at the polls. Forget trying to reason and win them back...few are gonna be swayed by facts, or sound reasoning. They've bought in, believe Trump can turn water into wine. The strategy has to be to overwhelm them at the polls. Get out, sign up, make sure to vote. Dont let others do the job for you, every vote counts. Be counted!

Thank God Democrats are showing up! Let's send the Republican Congress packing in November so we can at least reign in our Dictator....ooops, I meant president.

The Republican majority controlling the Congress in 2018 will not do anything to control this president when he does and says things that are terrible for the country. Therefore the only way to marginalize Trump and reduce his power to destroy and corrupt is for voters in November to vote against all Republicans seeking re-election. Since most incumbent Republicans in this congress are too afraid to challenge Trump when he does something foolish they don't deserve to be re-elected. Even if the Democrat who won the primary race in your district is not the best candidate, he/she is still not a Republican,. If all of the Sanders supporters who stayed home instead of voting in the November election in 2016 had held their noses and voted for Hillary it is probable that Trump would not be President today.

The strategy has to be to overwhelm Repub voters at the polls. This fall and beyond. Trying to win over die hard Repubs, or Trumplodites with facts and reason wont work. They've bought in and think Trump can change water into wine. Overwhelming numbers at fhe polls is the only real way forward. Every vote counts. Be counted. Dont assume that others voting is gonna be enough. Stop making excuses about how hard it is to vote. Its not. Vote Dems! Vote Indendents!

This article is extremely encouraging about the increased Democratic showing at the polls. Especially today with the SCOTUS giving "the President" much more expanded powers over immigration. We need a strong Democratic turnout in November, even though there's not much that can be done about the SCOTUS at this point, even if every election this fall goes blue. But we're going to need every possible vote in Congress to enact new legislation when they overturn Roe v. Wade. And others. It's coming. Let's just hope we can hold on until "the President" is not an amoral, ignorant, repulsive bully.

Closing the barn door after the horse got out. I'll believe a Blue Wave when I see it.

This is GREAT news for the nation bc both Devin Nunes' and Kevin McCarthy's District show a nice increase in Democratic voting! Wdn't it be wonderful is neither was reelected!

As Sinclair Lewis wrote back in the day, "It Can't Happen Here." It's happening here. Only we can stop it.

Hoping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins in the NY Primary.

Vote! Yes, as others have already commented. But also... DONATE! Even $25 makes a difference. Bernie proved it.

Encouraging, yes; now, just imagine the explosive results if the Democratic Party actually stood for something beyond the struggle for geriatric folks to clutch onto power out-of-power until they slip on that graveside banana peel.

Protest....Resist....and VOTE.

gentle reminder: "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." image the joy of the holiday season after an election where the GOP keeps a slim hold on both houses of congress coupled with proven election interference and vote manipulation.. our adversaries probably have.

Since election day it has been non stop Trump bashing by 90% of the media. As a result the media will help get out the vote for ALL Republicans, now and in November. The vote will be against the media, not for the candidate. The Press will find their methods of Trump destruction backfiring. That is my prediction and I am not an expert, just seeing and using common sense….something lacking in many groups today.

No matter what the New York TImes, or the latest polls say, I urge all Democratic candidates and their teams to believe they are just one vote short and to look for that one last vote until after the ballots are counted. Of course Democrats and independents are charged, we had a national election go against the will of the people, in part because Mr Trump's team seemed eager to employ the Russians to manipulate the election process and that squirrelous last minute FBI email report that was designed to impact the election. On top of that was the Senate's dereliction of duty by putting off President Obama's Supreme Court Nominee. Now by 5 -4 votes the Republicans are allowed to gerrymander poor people from getting their fair representation and Mr. Trump feels supported in his desire to discriminate based on religion and race. So we would like better life guards in the pool, to prevent our society from drowning under the weight of Mr. Trump's policies.

The Democrats have succeeded repeatedly in pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. They allowed complacency and ideological purity to guide their choices and actions, and therefore lost elections that should have been unlosable, as in 2000 and 2016. The drama at the border turned to their favor, but the Democrats lack any definable leader. You can't replace something, however awful, with nothing. The dysfunction of the Democratic party is two-fold. First, they have indulged themselves in a self-congratulatory spree of progressive candidates who have little appeal beyond the gender-identity and minority communities the Democrats so love. This will likely be the recipe for disaster, as it was in 2016. Second, they have failed to listen to the concerns of people who vote, and so have both abandoned and alienated middle Americans. Only in times of total Republican disasters (Watergate, economic disaster in 1992 and 2008) do they actually win. Either the Democrats will turn out voters or they will lose. Either they will energize people who DO vote, or they will lose. Either they will start to listen to middle and working class Americans or they will lose.

Great. Let's just hope the Supreme Court still allows us to vote in November.

Democrats abandoned the ballot box when they controlled both houses and the Presidency. The result was the emergence of a militant form of right wing extremism in Congress that blocked the Obama agenda and delivered the Supreme Court to Trump. Unless Democrats can harness the rage and outrage against a Trump/Alt right coup by voting in numbers never seen before, we will deserve to be ruled by corruption and the twilight of our democracy.

The republicans have supreme court supported racial gerrymandering as of today, along with a record of hacked and rigged voting machines in the districts and states that they control. Missing registrations are already mysteriously happening in Maryland and in California. You can count on this in other states as well. The republicans, with the help of their supreme court stopped the elections before the votes were completely counted in 2000, losing the popular vote but won the electoral college vote by one (271 votes). The price of the Bush republican presidency for our country was an over six trillion-dollar seventeen-year war that is still going on, and the worst recession (2017-2019) since the great depression. The only way that the democrats can possibly win in 2018 is with an unprecedented turnout, and by challenging the vote counting process every chance they get from now through November. If republicans win, the citizens of this nation will be under totalitarian rule with no checks and balances of any kind for the indefinite future.

Every single Democratic candidate that does not specifically say they are for election reform is not a true Liberal and you should not vote for them. It is going to take a massive blue wave to take back all levers of power to enact laws that will lock in Democracy.

Every single Democratic candidate that does not specifically say they are for election reform is not a true Liberal and you should not vote for them. It is going to take a massive blue wave to take back all levers of power to enact laws that will lock in Democracy.

Democrats, Independents and rational patriotic Republicans: Vote as if our USA survives as a democratic republic against this crypto- (and not very crypto) fascist Trump, a would-be Mussolini. Our nation's fate does, in fact, rest on your votes.

Primary election turnout is all well and good, but the real test will be in November. Both parties have really galvanized their respective camps. Trump has a extremely loyal, passionate, and expanding base. They are "on a roll" in ways that defy their own expectations, and they're not going to let it go. The other party is essentially relying upon "anyone by Trump" which has been the "strategy" since November 2016. Certainly they're very passionate too, and have a lot to rally around, but they're going to need a candidate to stand as their "symbol" of what they stand for. A Trump effigy isn't going to be enough.

I'm no expert: but it seems to me the true measure of Democratic strength isn't primary turnout. The mid-terms, wherein Democrats will be running against Republicans, will really show the difference in enthusiasm.

“Republicans and disaffected independent voters showed up in powerful numbers and pro-Obama voters did not [in 2010]. Democrats lost 63 House seats …” In 2010, with 300 safe House seats Republicans won an unprecedented 128 of the remaining 135 seats with a small national vote share even though close races should break about even. In 2014, the approval rating of the Republican Congress was in the single digits. Yet, the ‘Party of No’ swept up more seats despite the fact that progressive ballot measures passed by wide margins, even in non-blue states. These results defy the laws of statistics. Follow Jonathan Simon’s interviews at https://codered2014.com/. He is the author of “Code Red: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy” (2018 edition). Mark Crispin Miller: “The [vote-counting] system is computerized and privatized. Private companies tell us what the vote is. And we have no way to check it, we have no way to tell if it’s honest, that’s the real danger here.” German Court Rules E-Voting Unconstitutional https://tinyurl.com/za778ju “Political scientist Joachim Wiesner and son, physicist Ulrich Wiesner complained that push button voting was not transparent because the voter could not see what actually happened to his vote inside the computer and was required to place ‘blind faith’ in the technology. In addition, the two plaintiffs argued that the results were open to manipulation.” Other democracies count their ballots by hand. It’s the gold standard.

Classify this article in the "wishful thinking" column. It's going to be extraordinarily difficult for the Democrats to gain control of the House this year. What the author here carefully omits is that, regardless of increases or decreases in party turnout in key elections, as the primary season has worn on, overall Republican votes in key district primaries have exceeded Democratic turnout there. This is a key predictor of general election results, and it bodes very poorly for Democratic chances on districts where they need victories to flip the House. In California, for instance, in six of seven Republican districts targeted by the Democratic party, Republicans turned out more voters than Democrats. Additionally, the article ignores the fact that historical mid-term dynamics do not apply in 2018. Trump was the most universally unpopular winning presidential candidate in American history, and as such he provided no coattails for weak down-ballot Republicans in 2016. As a consequence there are no Republicans House members in Congress today who won because of a popular presidential candidate at the head of their ticket in 2016 Those weaker candidates who needed support at the top of the ticket lost. In short, the Republicans don't need to worry this year about vulnerable House members who are now running alone and unprotected by the presence of a popular presidential candidate. Those candidates never made it into Congress in 2016.

Good Job, Good People! Let's take back OUR U.S. House and Senate this November and stop The Con Don and other Robber Barons in their tracks. Keep them busy answering to OUR elected officials in Senate/House hearings. WE THE PEOPLE must keep up the momentum into 2020 and beyond. Democracy is not a spectator sport and WE are the only ones who can elect/hire Socially Conscious women and men who value democracy. There IS hope!

Yes ! Every single vote counts - every time - as is reinforced with each new SCOTUS decision. Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Vote Vote Vote November 2018, the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. Cooler heads prevailed then and they can do so now. Electing reasonable people who are American patriots is the prime goal, and removing shills for trump the American Kaiser being the second-most important reason to vote at all.

Maryland is having a watershed election cycle this year, but 80,000 new voter registrations have gone missing. I don't know why this story isn't getting more national coverage.

I keep sharing this quote from Jim Hightower: "The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek." VOTE!

This may not be as positive a sign as indicated due to the fractured natured and polarization within the party. Lets take the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs Joe Crowley primary in NY for example. There looks to be a much higher than normal turnout in that race, but if Crowley, a corporate Democrat, wins then Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's , a very progressive Democrat, supporters more than likely will not support Crowley (and vice-versa) at all in the November election. That district is pretty safe, but if we notice that same pattern in less safe districts then that blue-wave Dems are counting on may not come at all.

Thank God!

Florida has not had its primaries yet. But my area did have a county commission special election a week ago. There are about 230,000 residents per district, so like a state legislative district in many states. The Republican was the big favorite. (The elections are non-partisan but most people know candidates' affiliation). She was from an established political family. Cuban. Republican, in a moderate Miami way. Well-funded campaign. Extremely low turnout election. And she lost, to a complete newcomer, a very liberal Democrat. I think it was 53/47. A real surprise. The district itself was maybe +5 Hillary. I can't help but think this is a harbinger of something. I know I am certainly energized and earlier this year changed registration from R to D.

It feels like this situation is those once-in-a-generation challenges that our nation periodically faces. Civil and world wars, civil rights struggles for all of our fellow Americans, voting rights for all - this nation is indeed a crucible that is constantly reinventing itself - and not always for the better. This is it folks. This is our opportunity to use our most powerful tool - our individual vote - to make this nation "a more perfect union". If you care about going forward as a nation, together, with respect for all - we've got to move America to a different path.